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Dombey and Son
章节(65)
- Dedication 0:00
- Preface of 1848 0:07
- Preface of 1867 1:00
- I: Dombey and Son 3:09
- II: In Which Timely Provision Is Made for an Emergency That Will Sometimes Arise in the Best-Regulated Families 30:37
- III: In Which Mr. Dombey, as a Man and a Father, Is Seen at the Head of the Home-Department 57:01
- IV: In Which Some More First Appearances Are Made on the Stage of These Adventures 1:24:55
- V: Paul’s Progress and Christening 1:57:29
- VI: Paul’s Second Deprivation 2:45:11
- VII: A Bird’s-Eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-Place: Also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections 3:41:54
- VIII: Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character 3:56:28
- IX: In Which the Wooden Midshipman Gets Into Trouble 4:51:59
- X: Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster 5:26:50
- XI: Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene 5:57:55
- XII: Paul’s Education 6:37:27
- XIII: Shipping Intelligence and Office Business 7:25:07
- XIV: Paul Grows More and More Old-Fashioned, and Goes Home for the Holidays 7:56:42
- XV: Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a New Pursuit for Walter Gay 9:02:35
- XVI: What the Waves Were Always Saying 9:42:58
- XVII: Captain Cuttle Does a Little Business for the Young People 9:57:59
- XVIII: Father and Daughter 10:27:37
- XIX: Walter Goes Away 11:19:40
- XX: Mr. Dombey Goes Upon a Journey 11:54:33
- XXI: New Faces 12:33:40
- XXII: A Trifle of Management by Mr. Carker the Manager 13:02:28
- XXIII: Florence Solitary, and the Midshipman Mysterious 13:54:08
- XXIV: The Study of a Loving Heart 14:55:52
- XXV: Strange News of Uncle Sol 15:26:03
- XXVI: Shadows of the Past and Future 15:50:22
- XXVII: Deeper Shadows 16:33:09
- XXVIII: Alterations 17:21:33
- XXIX: The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs. Chick 17:49:50
- XXX: The Interval Before the Marriage 18:23:21
- XXXI: The Wedding 19:05:22
- XXXII: The Wooden Midshipman Goes to Pieces 19:51:30
- XXXIII: Contrasts 20:39:40
- XXXIV: Another Mother and Daughter 21:15:51
- XXXV: The Happy Pair 21:47:59
- XXXVI: Housewarming 22:21:57
- XXXVII: More Warnings Than One 22:54:58
- XXXVIII: Miss Tox Improves an Old Acquaintance 23:24:49
- XXXIX: Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner 23:49:24
- XL: Domestic Relations 24:35:21
- XLI: New Voices in the Waves 25:20:28
- XLII: Confidential and Accidental 25:49:50
- XLIII: The Watches of the Night 26:32:14
- XLIV: A Separation 26:56:54
- XLV: The Trusty Agent 27:25:01
- XLVI: Recognizant and Reflective 27:47:45
- XLVII: The Thunderbolt 28:22:37
- XLVIII: The Flight of Florence 29:19:47
- XLIX: The Midshipman Makes a Discovery 29:50:51
- L: Mr. Toots’s Complaint 30:38:30
- LI: Mr. Dombey and the World 31:27:05
- LII: Secret Intelligence 31:49:56
- LIII: More Intelligence 32:29:52
- LIV: The Fugitives 33:14:04
- LV: Rob the Grinder Loses His Place 33:44:58
- LVI: Several People Delighted, and the Game Chicken Disgusted 34:19:47
- LVII: Another Wedding 35:23:16
- LVIII: After a Lapse 35:45:21
- LIX: Retribution 36:27:43
- LX: Chiefly Matrimonial 37:22:24
- LXI: Relenting 37:56:47
- LXII: Final 38:32:49
The fictional Dombey and Son is a prominent mercantile “house” in England, and as Dombey and Son the novel opens, the third generation “and Son” has just been born. For Paul Dombey, the proud second “and Son” to graduate to “Dombey,” this moment has been the focus of his life to this point. So much so that he barely knows his six-year-old daughter Florence exists.
The impact of that father’s overbearing disposition on the one hand and indifference (and worse) on the other is the subject of the rest of the novel. Paul’s only focus is on preparing the junior Paul to be “and Son,” and those preparations have no room for Florence. As she makes her way to adulthood, she encounters caregivers good and bad, and adventures large and small, all while striving to find a place in her father’s heart.
Dombey and Son is a novel about the destructive nature of pride and arrogance, but it also has plenty to say about the essential qualities of motherhood and money. It would not be Dickens if there were not a plethora of characters of all stripes, stations, and personalities, each of whom leave an indelible impression on both the page and the mind.