Little Dorrit / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Wall, Stephen.

Small, Helen.

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England)--Fiction.

Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England).

Inheritance and succession--Fiction.

Inheritance and succession.

Debt, Imprisonment for--Fiction.

Debt, Imprisonment for.

Children of prisoners--Fiction.

Children of prisoners.

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Didactic fiction.

Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 985 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.

Summary:

"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. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the 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"--Cover page 4.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxii).

ISBN:

0141439963

9780141439969

OCLC:

52620448

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