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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 Panks, 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.
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Social life and customs, Children of prisoners, Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England), Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Social conditions, Inheritance and succession, Imprisonment for Debt, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, Girls, fiction, London (england), fiction, England, fiction, English literature, London (England), Prisons, Fiction, romance, general, Fathers and daughters, fiction, English language, Fiction, city life, Fiction, classics, Fiction, general, Juvenile fiction, Manners and customs, London (England) -- Fiction, Inheritance and succession -- Fiction, Love stories, Domestic fiction, Fathers and daughters -- Fiction, Children of prisoners -- Fiction, Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England) -- Fiction, Debt, Imprisonment for -- FictionPlaces
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The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit: Parts One and Two
1868, Bigelow, Brown and Co.
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Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens's other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.
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