Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, which explores themes of love, pride, and the power struggle between society and the family structure. It is centered on the wealthy and nightly Dombey, a businessman who craves a son to inherit his enterprises.

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Preface of 1867

I: Dombey and Son

II: In Which Timely Provision Is Made for an Emergency That Will Sometimes Arise in the Best-Regulated Families

III: In Which Mr. Dombey, as a Man and a Father, Is Seen at the Head of the Home-Department

IV: In Which Some More First Appearances Are Made on the Stage of These Adventures

V: Paul’s Progress and Christening

VI: Paul’s Second Deprivation

VII: A Bird’s-Eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-Place: Also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections

VIII: Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character

IX: In Which the Wooden Midshipman Gets Into Trouble

X: Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster

XI: Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene

XII: Paul’s Education

XIII: Shipping Intelligence and Office Business

XIV: Paul Grows More and More Old-Fashioned, and Goes Home for the Holidays

XV: Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a New Pursuit for Walter Gay

XVI: What the Waves Were Always Saying

XVII: Captain Cuttle Does a Little Business for the Young People

XVIII: Father and Daughter

XIX: Walter Goes Away

XX: Mr. Dombey Goes Upon a Journey

XXI: New Faces

XXII: A Trifle of Management by Mr. Carker the Manager

XXIII: Florence Solitary, and the Midshipman Mysterious

XXIV: The Study of a Loving Heart

XXV: Strange News of Uncle Sol

XXVI: Shadows of the Past and Future

XXVII: Deeper Shadows

XXVIII: Alterations

XXIX: The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs. Chick

XXX: The Interval Before the Marriage

XXXI: The Wedding

XXXII: The Wooden Midshipman Goes to Pieces

XXXIII: Contrasts

XXXIV: Another Mother and Daughter

XXXV: The Happy Pair

XXXVI: Housewarming

XXXVII: More Warnings Than One

XXXVIII: Miss Tox Improves an Old Acquaintance

XXXIX: Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner

XL: Domestic Relations

XLI: New Voices in the Waves

XLII: Confidential and Accidental

XLIII: The Watches of the Night

XLIV: A Separation

XLV: The Trusty Agent

XLVI: Recognizant and Reflective

XLVII: The Thunderbolt

XLVIII: The Flight of Florence

XLIX: The Midshipman Makes a Discovery

L: Mr. Toots’s Complaint

LI: Mr. Dombey and the World

LII: Secret Intelligence

LIII: More Intelligence

LIV: The Fugitives

LV: Rob the Grinder Loses His Place

LVI: Several People Delighted, and the Game Chicken Disgusted

LVII: Another Wedding

LVIII: After a Lapse

LIX: Retribution

LX: Chiefly Matrimonial

LXI: Relenting

LXII: Final

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