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Fiction · English

Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens

Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel.

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Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially. Through his dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter Florence, Dickens paints a vivid picture of the limitations of a society dominated by commercial values and the drive for profit andexplores the possibility of moral and emotional redemption through familial love.

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Author
Charles Dickens
Category
Fiction
Language
English

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