Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens

Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned. ‘Girls’ said Mr Dombey, ‘have nothing to do with Dombey and Son’. When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father’s office, rescues her from a bewildering experience in the streets of London, his unforgettable friends believe he is well on his way to receiving her hand in marriage and inheriting the company. It is to be a very different type of story.

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Originally published in monthly parts. the novel’s full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.

 

 

Trivia:  the phrase “good riddance to bad rubbish” first appears in Dombey & Son (Chapter 44).

 


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