# Dombey and Son

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- Book: [Dombey and Son](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/dombey-and-son) ([Dombey and Son.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/dombey-and-son.md))
- Authors: [Charles Dickens](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-405-7
- Published: 2012-10-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light' 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 and explores the possibility of moral and emotional redemption through familial love. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.