Dombey and SonBradbury and Evans, 1848 - Всего страниц: 624 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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... called her in. “If you really think that sort of society is good for the child,” he said sharply, as if there had been no interval since she proposed it, “where's Miss Florence?” “Nothing could be better than Miss Florence Sir,” said ...
... called her in. “If you really think that sort of society is good for the child,” he said sharply, as if there had been no interval since she proposed it, “where's Miss Florence?” “Nothing could be better than Miss Florence Sir,” said ...
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... called upon to make a vigorous effort in this instance ; and that if our interesting friend the Countess of Dombey - I beg your pardon ; Mrs. Dombey - should not be— ” " Able , " said the family practitioner . " To make that effort ...
... called upon to make a vigorous effort in this instance ; and that if our interesting friend the Countess of Dombey - I beg your pardon ; Mrs. Dombey - should not be— ” " Able , " said the family practitioner . " To make that effort ...
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... called a limited independence , which she turned to the best account . Possibly her mincing gait encouraged the belief , and suggested that her clipping a step of ordinary compass into two or three , originated in her habit of making ...
... called a limited independence , which she turned to the best account . Possibly her mincing gait encouraged the belief , and suggested that her clipping a step of ordinary compass into two or three , originated in her habit of making ...
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... called presence of mind , she sat down by the bedside , and said in the low precise tone of one who endeavours to awaken a sleeper : " Fanny ! Fanny ! " There was no sound in answer but the loud ticking of Mr. Dombey's watch and Doctor ...
... called presence of mind , she sat down by the bedside , and said in the low precise tone of one who endeavours to awaken a sleeper : " Fanny ! Fanny ! " There was no sound in answer but the loud ticking of Mr. Dombey's watch and Doctor ...
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... called out of her name , it would be considered in the wages . ور " Oh , of course , " said Mr. Dombey . " I desire to make it a question of wages , altogether . Now Richards , if you nurse my bereaved child , I wish you to remember ...
... called out of her name , it would be considered in the wages . ور " Oh , of course , " said Mr. Dombey . " I desire to make it a question of wages , altogether . Now Richards , if you nurse my bereaved child , I wish you to remember ...
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Стр. 138 - The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion—Death!
Стр. 26 - There were a hundred thousand shapes and substances of incompleteness, wildly mingled out of their places, upside down, burrowing in the earth, aspiring in the air, mouldering in the water, and unintelligible as any dream.
Стр. 137 - The train of thought suggested to him to inquire if he had ever seen his mother : for he could not remember whether they had told him yes or no, the river running very fast, and confusing his mind. " Floy, did I ever see mamma ?
Стр. 80 - In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones too) were common at untimely seasons, and from mere sprouts of bushes, under Doctor Blimber's cultivation. Every description of Greek and Latin vegetable was got off the dryest twigs of boys, under the frostiest...
Стр. 81 - This was all very pleasant and ingenious, but the system of forcing was attended with its usual disadvantages. There was not the right taste about the premature productions, and they didn't keep well. Moreover, one young gentleman, with a swollen nose and an excessively large head (the oldest of the ten who had " gone through" everything), suddenly left off blowing one day, and remained in the establishment a mere stalk.
Стр. 135 - When the sunbeams struck into his room through the rustling blinds, and quivered on the opposite wall like golden water, he knew that evening was coming on, and that the sky was red and beautiful. As the reflection died away, and a gloom went creeping up the wall, he watched it deepen, deepen, deepen, into night.
Стр. 133 - To and from the heart of this great change, all day and night, throbbing currents rushed and returned incessantly like its life's blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in every four-and-twenty hours, produced a fermentation in the place that was always in action.
Стр. 182 - The power that forced itself upon its iron way — its own — defiant of all paths and roads, piercing through the heart of every obstacle, and dragging living creatures of all classes, ages, and degrees behind it...
Стр. 138 - Nobody replied directly ; but his father soon said to Susan, "Call him back, then : let him come up...