Bibliograph

Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small

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Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxviii]-xxxii)

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Little Dorrit

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity

Target audience

adult

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