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Dombey and Son

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	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	Charles Dickens
	Narrator :	Frederick Davidson

	Length :	37 hours (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$53.99

Format :		Encoded Windows Media

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"Dombey and Son, the hidden gem even Dickens fans may have missed, combines a rollicking, biting sense of humor with nuanced psychological insights that feel surprisingly modern in their attitudes toward women."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"Frederick Davidson gives such a splendid dramatization of this family saga...it's almost like watching theater....the narrative sweeps the listener through [nearly] 40 hours of sustained drama."--AudioFile

On Oprah's Summer Reading List for 2010

This sensitive family drama combines grim psychological realism with Dickens' faith in the redemptive power of love. Frederick Davidson's wonderful narration won the AudioFile Earphones Award.

In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes us into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey. A sensitive family drama unfolds between this stern father, his two children, and his aloof wife, in which time and fateful events bring a slow, inexorable pressure to bear upon the hearts of all. In Paul Dombey we witness the force of social and personal arrogance (“For Dombey is as proud, Ma’am, as Lucifer”) wrestling with his own stubborn, but not unredeemable, heart.

Paul Dombey is a wealthy shipping merchant who runs his family with the same cold calculation he applies to his business. Evaluating his children's worth by what he thinks they can add to his bottom line, he dotes on the son he hopes to make his heir while neglecting his affectionate elder daughter. But through his pride and selfishness, Dombey is sowing the seeds of his own ruin. Once his heart is broken, can it finally be redeemed?

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