Mr Dombey has a house and a firm and needs an heir; he gets Paul, who is frail and strange and does not live, and Florence, whom he cannot bring himself to love. Around them Captain Cuttle, Susan Nipper, the appalling Mrs Skewton, and the railway tearing through Staggs’s Gardens and changing everything.
The first of Dickens’s fully planned novels, and one of his best. Download the free EPUB.