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Fiction · 1848

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

Reading time
about 26 h
Length
356,419 words · 598 pages
Structure
62 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Chapter I — Dombey and Son
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V — Paul’s Progress and Christening
  6. Chapter VI — Paul’s Second Deprivation
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII — Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character
  9. Chapter IX — In which the Wooden Midshipman gets into Trouble
  10. Chapter X — Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster
  11. Chapter XI — Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene
  12. Chapter XII — Paul’s Education
  13. Chapter XIII — Shipping Intelligence and Office Business
  14. Chapter XIV — Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays
  15. Chapter XV — Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay
  16. Chapter XVI — What the Waves were always saying
  17. Chapter XVII — Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People
  18. Chapter XVIII — Father and Daughter
  19. Chapter XIX — Walter goes away
  20. Chapter XX — Mr Dombey goes upon a Journey
  21. Chapter XXI — New Faces
  22. Chapter XXII — A Trifle of Management by Mr Carker the Manager
  23. Chapter XXIII — Florence solitary, and the Midshipman mysterious
  24. Chapter XXIV — The Study of a Loving Heart
  25. Chapter XXV — Strange News of Uncle Sol
  26. Chapter XXVI — Shadows of the Past and Future
  27. Chapter XXVII — Deeper Shadows
  28. Chapter XXVIII — Alterations
  29. Chapter XXIX — The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs Chick
  30. Chapter XXX — The interval before the Marriage
  31. Chapter XXXI — The Wedding
  32. Chapter XXXII — The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces
  33. Chapter XXXIII — Contrasts
  34. Chapter XXXIV — Another Mother and Daughter
  35. Chapter XXXV — The Happy Pair
  36. Chapter XXXVI — Housewarming
  37. Chapter XXXVII — More Warnings than One
  38. Chapter XXXVIII — Miss Tox improves an Old Acquaintance
  39. Chapter XXXIX — Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner
  40. Chapter XL — Domestic Relations
  41. Chapter XLI — New Voices in the Waves
  42. Chapter XLII — Confidential and Accidental
  43. Chapter XLIII — The Watches of the Night
  44. Chapter XLIV — A Separation
  45. Chapter XLV — The Trusty Agent
  46. Chapter XLVI — Recognizant and Reflective
  47. Chapter XLVII — The Thunderbolt
  48. Chapter XLVIII — The Flight of Florence
  49. Chapter XLIX — The Midshipman makes a Discovery
  50. Chapter L — Mr Toots’s Complaint
  51. Chapter LI — Mr Dombey and the World
  52. Chapter LII — Secret Intelligence
  53. Chapter LIII — More Intelligence
  54. Chapter LIV — The Fugitives
  55. Chapter LV — Rob the Grinder loses his Place
  56. Chapter LVI — Several People delighted, and the Game Chicken disgusted
  57. Chapter LVII — Another Wedding
  58. Chapter LVIII — After a Lapse
  59. Chapter LIX — Retribution
  60. Chapter LX — Chiefly Matrimonial
  61. Chapter LXI — Relenting
  62. Chapter LXII — Final
  63. Preface of 1848
  64. Preface of 1867

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Charles Dickens

1812–1870 · Victorian

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born at Portsmouth and worked as a child in a blacking factory while his father was imprisoned for debt — an experience he drew on for the rest of his life. A parliamentary reporter by twenty, he became the most popular novelist in English with The Pickwick Papers (1836–37) and never lost that place: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861) followed. He died at Gad’s Hill, Kent.

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