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Audie Prize Nominee, Basic, 2013 It was after the publication of Dombey and Son that the literary reputation of Charles Dickens as a world-class copy writer was finally and irrevocably established. And what acquired served to encourage this unequalled imaginative genius was the city he lived in: London. Dickens consistently walked anywhere from 10 to 20 miles every day through the narrow, winding roadways of the great city on the Thames. And just what a city! London in the middle-19th hundred years was easily the biggest, most magnificent metropolitan area in the world. By Dickens' day there have been four million souls living there. The novel focuses on Mr. Dombey, a wealthy merchant who challenges to cope with the death of his better half and the good care of his child son as the storyplot starts. He hires a nurse to bring up little Paul. On the other hand, other new heroes are brought in to the history, including Captain Cuttle, Sol Gills, and Walter Gay. As their lives touch the Dombey home, complications arise. When Dombey discovers that Walter, a lowly clerk in his office, is infatuated with his child, Florence, he sends him to the Western Indies to prevent any possibility of an romance developing, and, with the disappearance of the lad in a storm, his purpose is apparently satisfied. But destiny offers Mr. Dombey a fatal blow in his search to glorify the company Dombey & Son. The rest of the novel handles Dombey's reaction to his unforeseen tragedy.
