Dombey and Son (Annotated)

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1846–48) is a searching Victorian novel of commerce, family, and emotional blindness, centered on Paul Dombey, a proud merchant who values his son as an heir to the firm while neglecting the daughter whose love might redeem him. Written in Dickens's richly theatrical, satirical, and melodramatic mode, the novel blends domestic tragedy with social panorama, exposin...