Penguin Classics
February 2004
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Featuring: Arthur Clennam; Amy Dorrit
1024 pages ISBN: 0141439963 EAN: 9780141439969 Paperback Add to Wish List
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. 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.
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