Little Dorrit Paperback - 2004
by Charles Dickens; Stephen Wall (Editor); Helen Small (Editor)
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 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 Dickens's maturity.
About this book
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons & mdash; in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.
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 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 Dickens’s maturity.
- This revised edition includes expanded notes and updated suggestions for further reading
- Includes a chronology of Dickens's life and works, original illustrations, and an Introduction by Stephen Wall examining Dickens's own memories of his father's incarceration in Marshalsea
First Edition Identification
Bradbury and Evans published a First Editions, First Printing softcover 20 part collection in London, 1855. The 20 parts are bound in 19 blue wrappers designed by Phiz. With 40 black and white plates, including 8 dark plates, also by Phiz. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Bradbury and Evans published a First Edition, First Issue hardcover in London, 1857. The book is bound in brown Morocco by Sawyer, with boards double ruled in gilt. Spine is lettered and stamped in gilt as well, with marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. Illustrated by H.K. Browne, with forty inserted plates, including the 8 “dark plates” and the frontispiece and engraved title. The edition was bound from the original monthly parts.
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- Title Little Dorrit
- Author Charles Dickens; Stephen Wall (Editor); Helen Small (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 985
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-01-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780141439969 / 0141439963
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.8 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 4.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 760
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004269333
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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