Little Dorrit

by Dickens, Charles; Wall, Stephen; Small, Helen; Wall, Stephen; Small, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780140434927
• ISBN10: 0140434925
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Viking Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(15)
A Dickens Chronology	xxii	(3)
A Note on the Text	xxv	(1)
Suggested Further Reading	xxvi
LITTLE DORRIT	1	(788)
Appendix A: The Denouement of Little Dorrit	789	(2)
Appendix B: The Number Plans	791	(44)
Appendix C: The Marshalsea	835	(5)
Appendix D: Map of London	840	(3)
Notes	843