| ISBN |
9780141439969 (paperback) |
| Name |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 author. |
| Title |
Little Dorrit / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small. |
| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Published |
London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003. |
| ©2003 |
| Description |
xxxiv, 985 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxii). |
| 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"--Cover page 4. |
| Subjects |
Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England) -- Fiction |
| Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Debt, Imprisonment for -- Fiction |
| Children of prisoners -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Didactic fiction |
| Romance fiction |
| Other Names |
Wall, Stephen editor, author of introduction, etc. |
| Small, Helen editor, author of introduction, etc. |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
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