Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens was an English writer, novelist and essayist. The classic of the world literature. The Dickens' creations are referred to heights of realism, but in his novels he reflects sentimental and fabulous origins. Charles Dickens is considered one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era.

“Dombey and Son” is the eleventh novel by Charles Dickens which was considered by contemporaries of the time as a first mature work. Only after “Dombey and Son” Dickens gained the reputation as the world class author. The plot of the story goes around the powerful head of the House of Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business. The novel itself doesn't consist of numerous ideas or latent semantic implications. It may be classified as an ordinary novel of human fates.