Dombey and Son (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Charles Dickens

Originally published in installments, Dickens’s Dombey and Son presents a cavalcade of life in mid-nineteenth-century Britain, tracing the fortunes and eventual downfall of a powerful London shipping firm and its proud owner, Paul Dombey. The immense cast of inimitable Dickens characters includes Dombey’s children, his employees, and various legitimate and illegitimate relations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411435421

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.