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Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

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CHAPTER 1. Dombey and Son

CHAPTER 2. In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families

CHAPTER 3. In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home-Department

CHAPTER 4. In which some more First Appearances are made on the Stage of these Adventures

CHAPTER 5. Paul's Progress and Christening

CHAPTER 6. Paul's Second Deprivation

CHAPTER 7. A Bird's-eye Glimpse of Miss Tox's Dwelling-place: also of the State of Miss Tox's Affections

CHAPTER 8. Paul's Further Progress, Growth and Character

CHAPTER 9. In which the Wooden Midshipman gets into Trouble

CHAPTER 10. Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman's Disaster

CHAPTER 11. Paul's Introduction to a New Scene

CHAPTER 12. Paul's Education

CHAPTER 13. Shipping Intelligence and Office Business

CHAPTER 14. Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays

CHAPTER 15. Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay

CHAPTER 16. What the Waves were always saying

CHAPTER 17. Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People

CHAPTER 18. Father and Daughter

CHAPTER 19. Walter goes away

CHAPTER 20. Mr Dombey goes upon a Journey

CHAPTER 21. New Faces

CHAPTER 22. A Trifle of Management by Mr Carker the Manager

CHAPTER 23. Florence solitary, and the Midshipman mysterious

CHAPTER 24. The Study of a Loving Heart

CHAPTER 25. Strange News of Uncle Sol

CHAPTER 26. Shadows of the Past and Future

CHAPTER 27. Deeper Shadows

CHAPTER 28. Alterations

CHAPTER 29. The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs Chick

CHAPTER 30. The interval before the Marriage

CHAPTER 31. The Wedding

CHAPTER 32. The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces

CHAPTER 33. Contrasts

CHAPTER 34. Another Mother and Daughter

CHAPTER 35. The Happy Pair

CHAPTER 36. Housewarming

CHAPTER 37. More Warnings than One

CHAPTER 38. Miss Tox improves an Old Acquaintance

CHAPTER 39. Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner

CHAPTER 40. Domestic Relations

CHAPTER 41. New Voices in the Waves

CHAPTER 42. Confidential and Accidental

CHAPTER 43. The Watches of the Night

CHAPTER 44. A Separation

CHAPTER 45. The Trusty Agent

CHAPTER 46. Recognizant and Reflective

CHAPTER 47. The Thunderbolt

CHAPTER 48. The Flight of Florence

CHAPTER 49. The Midshipman makes a Discovery

CHAPTER 50. Mr Toots's Complaint

CHAPTER 51. Mr Dombey and the World

CHAPTER 52. Secret Intelligence

CHAPTER 53. More Intelligence

CHAPTER 54. The Fugitives

CHAPTER 55. Rob the Grinder loses his Place

CHAPTER 56. Several People delighted, and the Game Chicken disgusted

CHAPTER 57. Another Wedding

CHAPTER 58. After a Lapse

CHAPTER 59. Retribution

CHAPTER 60. Chiefly Matrimonial

CHAPTER 61. Relenting

CHAPTER 62. Final

End of the PREFACE OF 1848

PREFACE OF 1867