The novel begins in Marseilles "thirty years ago" (i.e., c. 1826), with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his cell mate how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is returning to London to see his mother after the death of his father, with whom he had lived for twenty years in China. On his deathbed
Little Dorrit
- Book ID
- 126983230
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 1857
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 540 KB
- Category
- Standards
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β¦ 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.
β¦ Subjects
prose_classic
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Genre: Challenge, Fiction, Literature ebook, 861 pages Paperback, 752 pages Published: 1857 Edition: Oxford Worldβs Classics (2012} Edited by: Harvey Peter Sucksmith Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes by: Dennis Walder (2012) Chronologyby: Elizabeth M. Brennan (1999) Mixing humor and path
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens?s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In
With an essay by George Gissing. **'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'** **** A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment,_Little Dorrit_ is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity