Dombey and Son - Author Charles Dickens

With the birth of little Paul Dombey, his father, also named Paul, triumphs, declaring, 'The House will once again be... Dombey and Son!'

Indeed, those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. Little Paul's birth also sees the death of his mother, broken by ten years of marriage to Mr. Dombey and barely missed by her husband, an icy and ambitious businessman - Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts.....