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Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

Novelsabout 39 hours of listening

A young woman grows up in a household where all of her father’s attention is on his son.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface of 1848
  4. Preface of 1867
  5. I: Dombey and Son
  6. II: In Which Timely Provision Is Made for an Emergency That Will Sometimes Arise in the Best-Regulated Families
  7. III: In Which Mr. Dombey, as a Man and a Father, Is Seen at the Head of the Home-Department
  8. IV: In Which Some More First Appearances Are Made on the Stage of These Adventures
  9. V: Paul’s Progress and Christening
  10. VI: Paul’s Second Deprivation
  11. VII: A Bird’s-Eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-Place: Also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections
  12. VIII: Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character
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  1. IX: In Which the Wooden Midshipman Gets Into Trouble
  2. X: Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster
  3. XI: Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene
  4. XII: Paul’s Education
  5. XIII: Shipping Intelligence and Office Business
  6. XIV: Paul Grows More and More Old-Fashioned, and Goes Home for the Holidays
  7. XV: Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a New Pursuit for Walter Gay
  8. XVI: What the Waves Were Always Saying
  9. XVII: Captain Cuttle Does a Little Business for the Young People
  10. XVIII: Father and Daughter
  11. XIX: Walter Goes Away
  12. XX: Mr. Dombey Goes Upon a Journey
  13. XXI: New Faces
  14. XXII: A Trifle of Management by Mr. Carker the Manager
  15. XXIII: Florence Solitary, and the Midshipman Mysterious
  16. XXIV: The Study of a Loving Heart
  17. XXV: Strange News of Uncle Sol
  18. XXVI: Shadows of the Past and Future
  19. XXVII: Deeper Shadows
  20. XXVIII: Alterations
  21. XXIX: The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs. Chick
  22. XXX: The Interval Before the Marriage
  23. XXXI: The Wedding
  24. XXXII: The Wooden Midshipman Goes to Pieces
  25. XXXIII: Contrasts
  26. XXXIV: Another Mother and Daughter
  27. XXXV: The Happy Pair
  28. XXXVI: Housewarming
  29. XXXVII: More Warnings Than One
  30. XXXVIII: Miss Tox Improves an Old Acquaintance
  31. XXXIX: Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner
  32. XL: Domestic Relations
  33. XLI: New Voices in the Waves
  34. XLII: Confidential and Accidental
  35. XLIII: The Watches of the Night
  36. XLIV: A Separation
  37. XLV: The Trusty Agent
  38. XLVI: Recognizant and Reflective
  39. XLVII: The Thunderbolt
  40. XLVIII: The Flight of Florence
  41. XLIX: The Midshipman Makes a Discovery
  42. L: Mr. Toots’s Complaint
  43. LI: Mr. Dombey and the World
  44. LII: Secret Intelligence
  45. LIII: More Intelligence
  46. LIV: The Fugitives
  47. LV: Rob the Grinder Loses His Place
  48. LVI: Several People Delighted, and the Game Chicken Disgusted
  49. LVII: Another Wedding
  50. LVIII: After a Lapse
  51. LIX: Retribution
  52. LX: Chiefly Matrimonial
  53. LXI: Relenting
  54. LXII: Final
  55. Colophon
  56. Uncopyright

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