Little Dorrit

Author(s): Charles Dickens

Classics | Storage

'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. 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, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect many lives, from Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier. This is the Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

LOCAL DESC


SLIGHT FOXED

General Information

  • : 9780141199375
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Classics
  • : 0.684
  • : May 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 42mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2012
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Charles Dickens
  • : 912
  • : 1008