{"description": "Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel.   Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially.  Through his dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter Florence, Dickens paints a vivid picture of the limitations of a society dominated by commercial values and the drive for profit andexplores the possibility of moral and emotional redemption through familial love.", "title": "Dombey and Son", "covers": [9283920, 10962588, 11215682, 11995171, 12035289, 11422091, 11862320, 11003638, 11145869, 13221817, 11569751, 14303671, 14634065, 14070520, 14070521], "subject_places": ["England"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Businesspeople", "Family-owned business enterprises", "Fathers and daughters", "Problem families", "Dysfunctional families", "Social life and customs", "Families", "Social conditions", "Families-owned business enterprises", "Family", "Literature", "Classic Literature", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Children's fiction", "Fathers, fiction", "London (england), fiction", "England, fiction", "English fiction", "Manners and customs", "Businessmen", "Gens d'affaires", "Romans, nouvelles", "Familles", "M\u0153urs et coutumes", "English literature", "Fathers and daughters, fiction", "Great britain, fiction", "Fiction, general", "England -- Fiction", "Dysfunctional families -- Fiction", "Domestic fiction", "Fathers and daughters -- Fiction", "Businesspeople -- Fiction", "Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction", "Long Now Manual for Civilization", "Fishes"], "key": "/works/OL14868861W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL24638A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["19th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 43, "revision": 43, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T00:48:37.973724"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-18T20:21:47.798415"}}