This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dombey and Son" by Charles Dickens. "The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light". Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially. Through his dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter Florence, Dickens paints a vivid picture of the limitations of a society dominated by commercial values and the drive for profit and explores the p