Little Dorrit

by Dickens, Charles; Sucksmith, Harvey Peter

• ISBN13: 9780192835666
• ISBN10: 0192835661
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his motheras seamstress, and in the affairs of Amyas 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 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 Dickensas maturity.

Table of Contents

Extra Illustrations	p. vi
Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xv
A Chronology of Charles Dickens	p. xvi
Preface	p. xxi
Contents	p. xxiii
List of Illustrations	p. xxvi
Little Dorrit	p. 1
The Number Plans	p. 692
Explanatory Notes	p. 715
Further Reading	p. 722
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