Little DorritWhen 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. |
Contents
BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY I Sun and Shadow | |
Fellow Travellers | |
Home | |
Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream | |
Family Affairs | |
The Father of the Marshalsea | |
The Child of the Marshalsea VIII The Lock | |
Little Mother | |
Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream XVI Nobodys Weakness | |
Nobodys Rival XVIII Little Dorrits Lover | |
The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations XX Moving in Society | |
Mr Merdles Complaint | |
A Puzzle XXIII Machinery in Motion | |
FortuneTelling | |
Conspirators and Others XXVI Nobodys State of Mind | |
FiveandTwenty XXVIII Nobodys Disappearance | |
Containing the whole Science of Government XI Let Loose | |
Bleeding Heart Yard | |
Patriarchal | |
Little Dorrits Party | |
Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming XXX The Word of a Gentleman | |
Spirit | |
More FortuneTelling XXXIII Mrs Merdles Complaint XXXIV A Shoal of Barnacles | |
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