Dombey and Son

The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Often considered the first novel of Dickens’s maturity, Dombey and Son offers a powerful analysis of family life and gender relations during the early years of nineteenth-century industrial capitalism.

Dombey and Son Publication Schedule:

I – October 1846 (Chapters 1-4)	XI – August 1847 (Chapters 32-34)
II – November 1846 (Chapters 5-7)	XII – September 1847 (Chapters 35-38)
III – December 1846 (Chapters 8-10)	XIII – October 1847 (Chapters 39-41)
IV – January 1847 (Chapters 11-13)	XIV – November 1847 (Chapters 42-45)
V – February 1847 (Chapters 14-16)	XV – December 1847 (Chapters 46-48)
VI – March 1847 (Chapters 17-19)	XVI – January 1848 (Chapters 49-51)
VII – April 1847 (Chapters 20-22)	XVII – February 1848 (Chapters 52-54)
VIII – May 1847 (Chapters 23-25)	XVIII – March 1848 (Chapters 55-57)
IX – June 1847 (Chapters 26-28)	XIX-XX – April 1848 (Chapters 58-62)
X – July 1847 (Chapters 29-31)

Recommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, but other versions are fine. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen to at LibriVox.org.

The Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship, is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.