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Little Dorrit

Dickens, CharlesEasson, Angus(Volume editor)
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Little Dorrit (1857) centres around the Dorrit family.

William Dorrit is a long-term inmate of the Marshalsea prison for debtors (where Dickens's own father spent some time).

He derives comfort from the presence of his daughter Amy, 'Little Dorrit', who was born in the prison.

It is unexpectedly discovered that William is heir to a fortune, and, with the notable exception of Amy, the family becomes arrogant and purse-proud as a consequence.

As paupers, Old Dorrit and Amy were befriended by Arthus Clenman; when Clenman in his turn is imprisoned for debt Amy looks after him.

Yet wealth presents a consistent obstacle to their union.

Clenman's family history is also the key to an elaborate mystery in which the Dorrits are involved.

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Product Details
0460876821 / 9780460876827
Paperback
823.8
01/04/1999
United Kingdom
English
Classics
xliv, 929p. : ill.
20 cm
general /undergraduate Learn More
Quiz No: 221683, Points 66.00, Book Level 9.40,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
With original illustrations Editor presents latest scholarship on Dickens in Introduction, Notes, Selected Criticism and Chronology of Dickens's life and times Reset with wide B format pages to give generous margins for notes
With original illustrations Editor presents latest scholarship on Dickens in Introduction, Notes, Selected Criticism and Chronology of Dickens's life and times Reset with wide B format pages to give generous margins for notes 2AB English, DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FC Classic fiction (pre c 1945)