Dombey and SonCharles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company, Paul Dombey, who dreams of having a son to carry on the family business. It deals with themes such as marriage for financial gain, cruelty towards children, family relationships, pride, arrogance, betrayal and the destructive effects of industrialization. |
Contents
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Chapter 32 The Wooden Midshipman Goes to Pieces | 940 |
Chapter 33 Contrasts | 976 |
Chapter 34 Another Mother and Daughter | 1003 |
Chapter 35 The Happy Pair | 1029 |
Chapter 36 Housewarming | 1053 |
Chapter 37 More Warnings than One | 1076 |
Chapter 38 Miss Tox Improves an Old Acquaintance | 1098 |
Chapter 39 Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle Mariner | 1117 |
Also of the State of Miss Toxs Affections | 195 |
Chapter 8 Pauls Further Progress Growth and Character | 207 |
Chapter 9 In Which the Wooden Midshipman Gets into Trouble | 252 |
Chapter 10 Containing the Sequel of the Midshipmans Disaster | 279 |
Chapter 11 Pauls Introduction to a New Scene | 306 |
Chapter 12 Pauls Education | 336 |
Chapter 13 Shipping Intelligence and Office Business | 374 |
Chapter 14 Paul Grows More and More OldFashioned and Goes Home for the Holidays | 401 |
Chapter 15 Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle and a New Pursuit for Walter Gay | 448 |
Chapter 16 What the Waves Were Always Saying | 478 |
Chapter 17 Captain Cuttle Does a Little Business for the Young People | 490 |
Chapter 18 Father and Daughter | 514 |
Chapter 19 Walter Goes Away | 552 |
Chapter 20 Mr Dombey Goes Upon a Journey | 579 |
Chapter 21 New Faces | 608 |
Chapter 22 A Trifle of Management by Mr Carker the Manager | 632 |
Chapter 23 Florence Solitary and the Midshipman Mysterious | 673 |
Chapter 24 The Study of a Loving Heart | 718 |
Chapter 25 Strange News of Uncle Sol | 742 |
Chapter 26 Shadows of the Past and Future | 761 |
Chapter 27 Deeper Shadows | 795 |
Chapter 28 Alterations | 830 |
Chapter 29 The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs Chick | 852 |
Chapter 30 The Interval Before the Marriage | 876 |
Chapter 31 The Wedding | 908 |
Chapter 40 Domestic Relations | 1151 |
Chapter 41 New Voices in the Waves | 1184 |
Chapter 42 Confidential and Accidental | 1205 |
Chapter 43 The Watches of the Night | 1237 |
Chapter 44 A Separation | 1255 |
Chapter 45 The Trusty Agent | 1276 |
Chapter 46 Recognizant and Reflective | 1294 |
Chapter 47 The Thunderbolt | 1321 |
Chapter 48 The Flight of Florence | 1361 |
Chapter 49 The Midshipman Makes a Discovery | 1385 |
Chapter 50 Mr Tootss Complaint | 1421 |
Chapter 51 Mr Dombey and the World | 1457 |
Chapter 52 Secret Intelligence | 1474 |
Chapter 53 More Intelligence | 1507 |
Chapter 54 The Fugitives | 1540 |
Chapter 55 Rob the Grinder Loses His Place | 1563 |
Chapter 56 Several People Delighted and the Game Chicken Disgusted | 1588 |
Chapter 57 Another Wedding | 1635 |
Chapter 58 After a Lapse | 1651 |
Chapter 59 Retribution | 1682 |
Chapter 60 Chiefly Matrimonial | 1720 |
Chapter 61 Relenting | 1745 |
Chapter 62 Final | 1771 |
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