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Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Little DorritWhen 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.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 23 December 2008
- Format: Paperback 1024 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780141439969 ISBN 10: 0141439963
- Sales rank: 48,531
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Full description for Little Dorrit
"Penguin Classics" give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens' novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens' life and notes that fill in the background to the book. This "Penguin Classics" edition of "Little Dorrit" also includes an appendix on the Marshalsea prison. 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' maturity.
