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Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

It follows Paul Dombey, a wealthy shipping firm owner obsessed with having a son to inherit his business, who coldly neglects his devoted daughter Florence.

"Dombey and Son" by Charles Dickens is a novel. It follows Paul Dombey, a wealthy shipping firm owner obsessed with having a son to inherit his business, who coldly neglects his devoted daughter Florence.

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Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair 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.

Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance, to be prepossessing. Son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniably fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet. On the brow of Dombey, Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time—remorseless twins they are for striding through their human forests, notching as they go—while the countenance of Son was crossed with a thousand little creases, which the same deceitful Time would take delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a preparation of the surface for his deeper operations.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. Dombey and Son
  2. 02Chapter II. In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families.
  3. 03Chapter III. In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home-Department
  4. 04Chapter IV. In which some more First Appearances are made on the Stage of these Adventures
  5. 05Chapter V. Paul’s Progress and Christening
  6. 06Chapter VI. Paul’s Second Deprivation
  7. 07Chapter VII. A Bird’s-eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-place: also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections
  8. 08Chapter VIII. Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character
  9. 09Chapter IX. In which the Wooden Midshipman gets into Trouble
  10. 10Chapter X. Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster
  11. 11Chapter XI. Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene
  12. 12Chapter XII. Paul’s Education
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Shipping Intelligence and Office Business
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays
  15. 15Chapter XV. Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay
  16. 16Chapter XVI. What the Waves were always saying
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. Father and Daughter
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Walter goes away
  20. 20Chapter XX. Mr Dombey goes upon a Journey
  21. 21Chapter XXI. New Faces
  22. 22Chapter XXII. A Trifle of Management by Mr Carker the Manager
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Florence solitary, and the Midshipman mysterious
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. The Study of a Loving Heart
  25. 25Chapter XXV. Strange News of Uncle Sol
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. Shadows of the Past and Future
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Deeper Shadows
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Alterations
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs Chick
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The interval before the Marriage
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. The Wedding
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Contrasts
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Another Mother and Daughter
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. The Happy Pair
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Housewarming
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. More Warnings than One
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Miss Tox improves an Old Acquaintance
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner
  40. 40Chapter XL. Domestic Relations
  41. 41Chapter XLI. New Voices in the Waves
  42. 42Chapter XLII. Confidential and Accidental
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. The Watches of the Night
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. A Separation
  45. 45Chapter XLV. The Trusty Agent
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. Recognizant and Reflective
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. The Thunderbolt
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. The Flight of Florence
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. The Midshipman makes a Discovery
  50. 50Chapter L. Mr Toots’s Complaint
  51. 51Chapter LI. Mr Dombey and the World
  52. 52Chapter LII. Secret Intelligence
  53. 53Chapter LIII. More Intelligence
  54. 54Chapter LIV. The Fugitives
  55. 55Chapter LV. Rob the Grinder loses his Place
  56. 56Chapter LVI. Several People delighted, and the Game Chicken disgusted
  57. 57Chapter LVII. Another Wedding
  58. 58Chapter LVIII. After a Lapse
  59. 59Chapter LIX. Retribution
  60. 60Chapter LX. Chiefly Matrimonial

About this edition

Author
Charles Dickens
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
1013 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers