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		Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

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Dombey and son / by Charles Dickens.

by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

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Dodd, Mead, 1950.

Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction.

Shipping companies (Marine transportation) -- Fiction.

Arranged marriage -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Betrayal -- Fiction.

Child abuse -- Fiction.

Patriarchy -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 167

9780679435914 (1994 Everyman's Library hc.)

9780141199917 (2012 Penguin English Library trade pbk.)

1 v. (various pagings).

First published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848 with the full title "Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation."

1954 Collins edition has an introduction by Mark Whyte.

1994 Everyman's Library hardcover edition has an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett and the original illustrations by 'Phiz'.

"The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business. The book begins when his son is born, and Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth. The child, also named Paul, is weak and often ill, and does not socialize normally with others; adults call him "old fashioned". He is intensely fond of his elder sister, Florence, whom Mr. Dombey neglects as irrelevant and a distraction. He is sent away first for his health, and then to a school near the sea, but he dies, still only six years old. Dombey pushes his daughter away from him after the death of his son, while she futilely tries to earn his love. She also develops a close friendship with Walter Gay, who once rescued her when she had got lost and been kidnapped as a child. Walter works for Dombey and Son, but through the manipulations of the firm's manager, Mr Carker, he is sent off to work in Barbados. His boat is reported lost and he is presumed drowned. Walter's uncle, the navigation instrument maker Solomon Gills, leaves to go in search of Walter. Florence is left alone with few friends most of the time. Dombey goes to Leamington with Major Bagstock, where he meets Mrs. Skewton and her daughter, Edith Granger. After they return to London, Dombey remarries; effectively he buys Edith in marriage. The marriage is a loveless one; his wife despises him as greedy and herself as shallow and worthless. Her love for Florence initially prevents her from leaving, but finally she conspires with Mr Carker that they shall ruin Dombey's public image by running away together. They do so after she fights with Dombey; when he discovers that she has left, he blames Florence. In Dijon, Mrs Dombey informs Carker that she sees him in no better a light than she sees Dombey, and that she will not stay with him. Distraught, with both his financial and personal hopes lost, Carker falls under a train and is killed. After Carker's disappearance, it is discovered that he had been running the firm far beyond its means; within a year it collapses and is sold off and Dombey is left a shambles; nearly mad living alone in his decaying house. Meantime Florence has found refuge with Captain Cuttle, who has been running Gills' store in his absence. Walter Gay returns home after being fortuitously saved from his shipwreck. He and Florence marry, and she reconciles with her father."--Wikipedia.

Historical fiction.

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