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Little Dorrit


Book ID
126127679
Publisher
Penguin
Year
1857
Tongue
English
Weight
766 KB
Category
Standards

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✦ Synopsis


Coming to PBS in March 2009?a MasterpieceTM Classic production of Charles Dickens?s Little DorritCharles Dickens ?s great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother?s seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is a supreme work of Dickens?s maturity.

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