Dombey and Son (version 2)

By Dickens, Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0002950803
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File Size: 1284.36 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Dombey and Son (version 2)
Author:	Dickens, Charles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Dombey and Son (version 2)
Historic Publication Date:	1848
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Description
Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. 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. As with most of Dickens' work, a number of socially significant themes are to be found in this book. In particular the book deals with the then-prevalent common practice of arranged marriages for financial gain. Other themes to be detected within this work include child cruelty (particularly in Dombey's treatment of Florence), familial relationships, and as ever in Dickens, betrayal and deceit and the consequences thereof. (Wikipedia)

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