Dombey and Son (Penguin English Library)

Dombey and Son (Penguin English Library) by Dickens, Charles. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780140430486.

To Paul Dombey, business is everything and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his little son, while his motherless daughter Florence craves affection from her unloving father, who sees her only as a base coin that couldnt be invested. As Dombeys callousness extends to others - from his defiant second wife Edith to Florences admirer Walter Gay - he sows the seeds for his own destruction. Can this heartless businessman be redeemed? A compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, "Dombey and Son" (1848) explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole.