Little Dorrit

Author(s): Charles Dickens

Classics

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 Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily 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.


Product Information

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers. Stephen Wall is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Helen Small is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

General Fields

  • : 9780141439969
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 1.55
  • : October 2003
  • : September 2003
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : illustrations, notes
  • : FC
  • : 1024
  • : 2004269333
  • : 823/.8
  • : English
  • : 404
  • : Paperback
  • : Charles Dickens