Dombey and Son
About this book
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.
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- businessmen
- businesspeople
- businesspeople -- fiction
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- domestic fiction
- dysfunctional families
- dysfunctional families -- fiction
- england -- fiction
- england, fiction
- english fiction
- english literature
- families
- families-owned business enterprises
- familles
- family
- family-owned business enterprises
- family-owned business enterprises -- fiction
- fathers and daughters
- fathers and daughters -- fiction
- fathers and daughters, fiction
- fathers, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fishes
- gens d'affaires
- great britain, fiction
- literature
- london (england), fiction
- long now manual for civilization
- manners and customs
- mœurs et coutumes
- problem families
- romans, nouvelles
- social conditions
- social life and customs