Dombey And SonOne of Dickens's great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama, and realism mingle with hallucinatory power, Dombey And Son weaves together a number of stories centred around the family of the self important merchant, Paul Dombey, and his children, Paul and Florence. Supplied with the usual extraordinary cast of Dickensian grotesques, both comic and sinister, the novel also features a wonderful villain in the person of Mr Carker, who