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Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has no market value. In his son he sees the future of his firm and the continuation of his name, while he neglects his affectionate daughter, until he decides to get rid of her beloved, a lowly clerk. But Dombey's weakness is his pride, and he falls prey to the treacherous flattery of others. Combining an intricate plot, vivid language, and Dickens's customary social commentary, Dombey and Son, explores the possibility of moral and emotional redemption through familial love.
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Fiction, Businesspeople, Family-owned business enterprises, Fathers and daughters, Problem families, Dysfunctional families, Social life and customs, Families, Social conditions, Families-owned business enterprises, Family, Literature, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, Fathers, fiction, London (england), fiction, England, fiction, English fiction, Manners and customs, Businessmen, Gens d'affaires, Romans, nouvelles, Familles, Mœurs et coutumes, English literature, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, generalPlaces
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Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son: wholesale, retail, and for exportation
1950, Oxford University Press
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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 andexplores the possibility of moral and emotional redemption through familial love.
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