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by Charles Dickens (Author), Dennis Walder (Contributor), Alan Horsman (Editor) "DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 1024 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; 2 edition (8 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0199536287
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199536283
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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'"Dom-bey and Son"...Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.' The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul, and Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude. This new edition contains Dickens's prefaces, his working plans, and all the original illustrations by 'Phiz'. The text is that of the definitive Clarendon edition. It has been supplemented by a wide-ranging Introduction, highlighting Dickens's engagement with his times, and the touching exploration of family relationships which give the novel added depth and relevance. The Notes and Bibliography have been substantially revised, extended, and updated.

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Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. In 1824, his father was imprisoned for debt, so Charles was sent to work in a shoe-dye factory. He later became a clerk in a law firm, a shorthand reporter in the courts, and a parliamentary and newspaper reporter. In 1833, Dickens began to contribute short stories and essays to periodicals, heralding the start of a glittering and prolific literary career. He married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, with whom he had nine surviving children before they separated in 1858. Dickens died suddenly at home on June 9, 1870, leaving behind an internationally acclaimed canon of work, including Oliver Twist (1837), Nicholas Nickleby (1838), David Copperfield (1849-50), Bleak House (1852-53), Little Dorrit (1855-57), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-61) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). He was buried in Westminster Abbey. Michael Slater is Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College in the University of London. He was editor of The Dickensian (1968-77) and President of the International Dickens Fellowship (1988-90). He has published many books and articles on Dickens. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dombey and Daughter?, 23 Sep 2007
By M. Dowden (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is probably the least filmed Dickens novel, but don't be put off by that. Dickens gave us a book which really showed the nineteenth century attitude to women. Mr Dombey has a daughter but it is the birth of his son that is all he is concerned about, after all it will mean the continuation if his business. This story is a very good read and definitely one of Dickens' best, a must for anyone who loves a good read. Thackery himself despaired over the death scenes and said was there any point in ever writing again. Through deaths Dickens shows us the delicacy of his writing and through remarriage and peoples scrapes he shows us yet again how brilliant he is at comedy. Dickens also shows that he wasn't adverse to Women's Lib in this book, which was written about a decade before such other novels were being regularly written.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile for Dickens fans, 2 Dec 2004
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It's difficult to rate a book like "Dombey and Son". At its best, it's brilliant, and at its worst it can be rather dull.

The first part of the book focuses on Mr Dombey's beloved and fragile son, little Paul, of whom great things are expected. Unfortunately, there is little in the way of plot. Little Paul's visit to Brighton and his schooling seem to go on forever. Mr Dombey is a potentially interesting character, but Dickens - or rather the narrator - is so busy berating him for his self-importance and belittling even his more laudable feelings, like the love for his son, that he never gets a fair hearing. Dombey's household, including his son and his daughter Florence, the book's heroine, fails to really grip you, and so do Florence's later love interest Walter Gay and his set. Still, there is the odd amusing scene, the chapter set in Dombey's office promises well - although it doesn't fulfil its promise until much later - and even the dullish patches are well-written (not like the awful America chapters in "Martin Chuzzlewit").

However, it isn't until about three hundred pages into the book that the novel really gets going, with Mr Dombey's courtship of and later marriage to the scornful Edith Granger. The marital battle that ensues is engrossing, not least because of the part that Dombey's business manager James Carker, the splendid villain of the piece, plays in it. After this drama seems to have reached its logical conclusion, the plot loses momentum for a while. Then a grotesque plot twist makes a nonsense of some of the strongest previous scenes. Still fuming over this, I was nevertheless touched by the truly moving ending.

There are some minor gripes. The relationship between Mr Dombey and his daughter Florence would have been more fascinating if Dickens hadn't taken such pains to steer our sympathies towards Florence and away from her father. A reader tends to rebel when the author's intentions are made too clear. After all, Dombey has a case: his daughter does, albeit unwittingly, cause him a great deal of misery, so perhaps it isn't that strange that he finds it difficult to warm to her. We don't see any of her much-vaunted filial love during the first part of the book, and it isn't until the end that it leads her to actually do her dad some good. The secondary characters have their moments, but they have a tendency to outstay their welcome. Taken altogether, though, this book is worth the effort: you have to eat a lot of greens to get to the dessert, but the dessert is delicious. If you're unfamiliar with Dickens, this is not the novel to start with: try "Great Expectations", "Bleak House" and/or "David Copperfield" first, and then when you're hooked you can proceed with this one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The sins of the father..., 21 May 2009
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Charles Dickens' study of paternal love and responsibility in Victorian England is one of his later novels, and is generally one of the less celebrated of his many works. I vaguely remember a sunday-night BBC dramatisation about twenty years ago, but had little prior knowledge of the story; so I was pleased to discover that it is both accessible, and as acutely-observed and drawn as anything Dicken's ever produced. Paul Dombey is austere and grasping as Scrooge, and as emotionally cauterised as either Quilp or Mr Bumble the Beadle; and the moral undertones are as clearly-defined and as rich as you'd expect from the master of Nineteenth Century social commentary.
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Of the 14 novels Dickens completed in his lifetime, Dombey and Son is undoubtedly one of the least known; only Barnaby Rudge provides serious competition in this regard, it... Read more
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