Little Dorrit Paperback - 2009
by Dickens, Charles; Small, Helen; Wall, Stephen
Coming to PBS in March 2009-a MasterpieceTMClassic production of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens 's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the storyof Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothingbut trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in theMarshalsea. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is a supreme work ofDickens's maturity.
About this book
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons & mdash; in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.
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Charles Dickens 's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is a supreme work of Dickens's maturity.
First Edition Identification
Bradbury and Evans published a First Editions, First Printing softcover 20 part collection in London, 1855. The 20 parts are bound in 19 blue wrappers designed by Phiz. With 40 black and white plates, including 8 dark plates, also by Phiz. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Bradbury and Evans published a First Edition, First Issue hardcover in London, 1857. The book is bound in brown Morocco by Sawyer, with boards double ruled in gilt. Spine is lettered and stamped in gilt as well, with marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. Illustrated by H.K. Browne, with forty inserted plates, including the 8 “dark plates” and the frontispiece and engraved title. The edition was bound from the original monthly parts.
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- Title Little Dorrit
- Author Dickens, Charles; Small, Helen; Wall, Stephen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 928
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-03-03
- ISBN 9780143115878
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