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Dombey and Son

1848 novel by Charles Dickens
VisualArtwork literary_work Q963659

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
literary work
Author
Charles Dickens[2]
Genre
social criticism[5]
Language of work or name
English[8]
Publication date
1848[10]
Follows
Pictures from Italy[6]
Followed by
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain[7]
Copyright status
public domain, public domain[26]
Country of origin
England[9]
Derivative work
Dombey and Son, Dombey and Son, Dombais et fils, Dombey and Son, Rich Man's Folly, Dombey and Daughter[22][23][24][25]
Described by source
New International Encyclopedia[17]
First line
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.[20]
Form of creative work
novel[27]
Has edition or translation
Dombey and Son, Dombey and Son : ELTeC edition, Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, wholesale, retail, and for exportation (first edition), Dombey and Son (digital edition), Dombi i syn (1894), Wikidata item[11][12][13][14][15][16]
Illustrator
Hablot Knight Browne[3]
Last line
Better, far better, that they whispered of that region in our childish ears, and the swift river hurried us away![21]
Publisher
Bradbury and Evans[4]
Title
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export, Dombey and Son[18][19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation en Dombey and Son en Dealings with the firm of Dombey and son ar دومبي وابنه de Dombey und Sohn es Dombey e hijo fa دامبی و پسر fi Dombey ja poika fr Dombey et Fils hu Dombey és fia id Dombey dan Anak it Dombey e Figlio ja ドンビー父子 ru Домби и сын sv Dombey och son uk Домбі й син zh 董贝父子
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
174615984
Library of Congress authority ID
n84804327
GND ID
4395088-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dombeyson serial cover.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12106921h
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Dombey-and-Son
FantLab work ID
154652
Freebase ID
/m/042hz3
LibraryThing work ID
2194
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007585853405171
Open Library ID
OL14868861W
Penguin Random House work ID
286290
Show all 17 identifiers +5
Project Gutenberg ebook ID
821
TV Tropes ID
Literature/DombeyAndSon
Wellcome Collection concept ID
yyy7sbaz
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Book", "DombeyAndSon"]
Work available at URL
eto.box

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🔗 Connections
Copyright status 2
public domain, public domain
Followed by (predecessor) 2
David Copperfield, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Preceded by (successor) 2
Martin Chuzzlewit, Pictures from Italy
Author 1
Charles Dickens
Country of origin 1
England
Created notable works 1
Charles Dickens
Derivative work 1
Dombey and Son
Described by source 1
New International Encyclopedia
Followed by 1
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Follows 1
Pictures from Italy
Form of creative work 1
novel
Genre 1
social criticism
Illustrator 1
Hablot Knight Browne
Instance of 1
literary work
Language of work or name 1
English
Publisher 1
Bradbury and Evans
← Based on 1
Dombey and Son
← References work, tradition or theory 1
Little Women
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Summary

Dombey and Son is a literary work[1].

Related Entities

Charles Dickens David Copperfield England literary work Little Women public domain

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  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . gutenberg.org. gutenberg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . gutenberg.org. gutenberg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . Price One Penny. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Filesdotcomgigs · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    LibraryThing work ID → 2194
    Has edition or translation → Dombey and Son, Dombey and Son : ELTeC edition, Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, wholesale, retail, and for exportation (first edition) +3
    Work available at URL → https://eto.box/book/098e1fb78ee715eac41da7f4023ced8b
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Work available at URL: https://eto.box/book/098e1fb78ee715eac41da7f4023ced8b, Add full-text availability link (P953) to a public-domain work"
  2. 26w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Illustrator → Hablot Knight Browne
    Publisher → Bradbury and Evans
    Instance of → literary work
    Genre → social criticism
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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