The story of the proud shipping merchant Paul Dombey, whose obsession with a male heir blinds him to the devotion of his daughter Florence.
Books mentioned in Dombey and Son (3)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “Little Paul might have asked with Hamlet 'into my grave?”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “…with effervescent noises; and where the most domestic and confidential garments of coachmen and their wives and families, usually hung, like Macbeth's banners, on the outward walls.”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “Well, Wally,' resumed the old man, after a short pause: 'not being like the Savages who came on Robinson Crusoe's Island, we can't live on a man who asks for change for a sovereign, and a woman who inquires the way to Mile-End Turnpike.”
Books that mention Dombey and Son (3)
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: ““Dombey and Son,” because he thought he really should read better stuff”
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger: “he was sitting at the table in the kitchen... drinking a glass of ginger ale and eating saltines and reading 'Dombey and Son,' and all of a sudden Jesus sat down in the other chair”
Grant by Ron Chernow: “Grant retained special affection for Dickens, especially The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, and Oliver Twist.”