Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens author Stephen Wall editor Helen Small editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:25th Sep '03

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Little Dorrit cover

'In Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached' George Orwell

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. It follows Arthur Clennam who, returning to England after many years abroad, takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, who was born and raised in the Marshalsea where her father has long been imprisoned for debt. 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, to the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office and Merdle, an unscrupulous financier.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small

“One of the most significant works of the nineteenth century.”—Lionel Trilling

ISBN: 9780141439969

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 42mm

Weight: 692g

1024 pages