Modern Library Classics: Dombey and Son (Paperback)

from nmele

This novel has it all, the amazing names, the odd characters, the social commentary. Dickens seems to have attempted here a novelization of a Greek classical tragedy, but in the end, after hubris brings ruin, Dickens wraps up almost all the plot threads with marriages and general felicity. Good r...

from Mercury57

Memorable for the passage in which Dickens gives vent to his belief that industrialisation is dehumanising his society. He uses the story of a man so absorbed by the nature of business and trade that he renders all human interaction as an exchange. In this novel Dickens wants 'to take the rooftop...

from santhony

It was a happy day when I, for whatever reason, elected to sample Charles Dickens. Having read A Tale of Two Cities in high school, I digressed to more popular fiction (Michener, Clavell, McMurtry, King, Grisham), as well as periods of science fiction and even non-fiction (Ambrose, McCollough for...

from samfsmith

Merely finishing this beast of novel gives me a sense of accomplishment. This edition is 833 pages of small type, without a single blank page or added space, not even for the beginnings of chapters. Let's estimate: 12 words per line, 39 lines per page, 833 pages equals 489,844 words, minus about ...

from Ganeshaka

Cap'n ahoy? I stand, good sir, a week done of strenuous climbing, cliff upon cliff, at the very last able to plant my flag on Mt. Dombey - nine hundred and three pages above sea-level. Oh, a little weak in the knees, and a touch dizzy - my heart racing from the rareified atmospheres and sentiment...