Author: Charles Dickens
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son
Author: Leon Litvack
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This annotated bibliography of Dickens's Dombey and Son carefully analyzes almost 900 individual items, documenting the novel's composition and publication, as well as its popular and critical standing. In addition to examining the text, it assess reviews and the reactions of contemporaries.
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This annotated bibliography of Dickens's Dombey and Son carefully analyzes almost 900 individual items, documenting the novel's composition and publication, as well as its popular and critical standing. In addition to examining the text, it assess reviews and the reactions of contemporaries.
Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
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ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Dombey and Son
Author: Charles Dickens
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977292
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977292
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Wiley One Hundred and Seventy-Five Years of Publishing
Author: John Hammond Moore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Details the long and prestigious history of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., one of America's oldest and most respected publishers. Details the development of the house from its early days as the publisher of James Fennimore Cooper and other noted 19th century authors, to its rise in this century as a leader in the field of scientific and technical books and college texts. Profusely illustrated.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Details the long and prestigious history of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., one of America's oldest and most respected publishers. Details the development of the house from its early days as the publisher of James Fennimore Cooper and other noted 19th century authors, to its rise in this century as a leader in the field of scientific and technical books and college texts. Profusely illustrated.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description