Home › Literature › Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son
About this book
Charles Dickens's novel follows Paul Dombey, a proud shipping magnate whose obsession with securing a male heir for his firm blinds him to his devoted daughter Florence. Suitable for readers of Victorian literature and those interested in themes of family, pride, and commerce.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
More by Charles Dickens
Browse all →
Mugby Junction
Charles Dickens
The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1
W. J. (William James) Dawson · John Brown +13
Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
No Thoroughfare
Charles Dickens · Wilkie Collins
A House to Let
Charles Dickens · Wilkie Collins +2
Some Christmas Stories
Charles Dickens
Legends and Lyrics. Part 1
Adelaide Anne Procter · Charles Dickens
The Seven Poor Travellers
Charles Dickens
More in Literature
Browse all →
The Queen Pedauque
Anatole France · Jos. A. V. Stritzko
Gambara
Honoré de Balzac
The Gilded Age, Part 6.
Mark Twain · Charles Dudley Warner
Under the Redwoods
Bret Harte
Mugby Junction
Charles Dickens
The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
Honoré de Balzac · George Saintsbury
The Shadow of the Cathedral
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · William Dean Howells +1
A bankrupt heart, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Florence Marryat