Little Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Red classics; Red classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1070
ISBN-13: 9780141037394
Subjects: Prisons; Fiction; Social conditions
Description: "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..."-- Publisher description.
Notes: TV tie-in.