Little Dorrit Paperback / softback
by Charles Dickens
Edited by Harvey Peter Sucksmith
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
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'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.'Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their self-made social and mental prisons.
Against a background of government incompetence and financial scandal, he searches for the key to the affairs of the Dorrit family, prisoners for debt in the Marshalsea.
He discovers through the seamstress Amy Dorrit the fulfilment of which he dreams, but only after he learns to understand his own heart.
Revelation and redemption haunt Dickens's portrayal of human relations as fundamentally distorted by class and money.
The swindling financier Merdle, the bureaucratic nightmare of the Circumlocution Office, and a teeming cast of characters display the inadequacy of secular morality in the face of contemporary social and political confusion.
Mixing humour and pathos, irony and satire, Dickens's eleventh novel reveals a master of fiction in top form. This new edition, based on the definitive Clarendon text, includes all of Phiz's original illustrations and a wide-ranging introduction highlighting Dickens's move to more personal and spiritual concerns.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:912 pages, 41 black and white
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/07/2012
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- ISBN:9780199596485
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:912 pages, 41 black and white
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199596485
