Dombey and Son
By: Charles Dickens ; edited by Alan Horsman ; with an introduction and notes by Dennis Walder.
Contributors: Horsman, E. A. 1918-; Walder, Dennis.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Open University set book; Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 967
Subjects: Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Problem families -- Fiction; Businesspeople -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul, and Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxvi]-xxix).