Charles Dickens
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| Title | : | Little Dorrit |
| Author | : | Charles Dickens |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1021 pages |
| Published | : | September 25th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1855) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction |
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A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.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 Marshalsea prison. 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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| Original Title: | Little Dorrit |
| ISBN: | 0141439963 (ISBN13: 9780141439969) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Amy "Little Dorrit" Dorrit, Arthur Clennam, Rigaud "Blandois", William Dorrit, Fanny Dorrit, Mr. Pancks, Mrs. Clennam |
| Setting: | London, England |
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A forgotten classic, hidden among so many other fine works that Chuck produced. I laughed, I cried and I nearly peed myself because I refused to put the book down. It has been clinically proven that those who find Dickens too maudlin or sentimental are either emotionally stunted or full-on cold hearted sociopaths. Clinically proven.Not suprisingly, Kafka loved this book what with the Circumlocution Office and the strange almost alternate reality of Marshalsea Debtors Prison. If you have neverfrom da scorchin sun a marsellies 2 da dark cold cellof a debtors prison, lill dorrit b 1 of dickens 4gotten masta pieces.dey be lockin boyz up 4 sum wack shit back in da day. ma man dorrit wuz in jail 4 debt 4 so long he had 3 dam kids up in there. N now he think he hot shit jus cus all da prisoners look up 2 him. n he always thinks his kids don work (but dey do). he is off his wacker n shiyt, nom sayin? so dis guy arthur think he owes dees dorrit peeps bc his pops was into sum shady shyt or
Listening to Anton Lesser's superb narration, courtesy of review audiobook via SFFaudio.com.==========Casting around for something to listen to but in a weird frame of mind ... I began trying out books read by some of my favorite LibriVox readers, as well as those recommended in the comments. Then I got to Mil Nicholson who reads Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. I have been longing to read it for some time. And I fell in love. Her reading is simply superb. It also is wonderfully supplemented by
Now this book is primarily a love story although in a convoluted narrative, containing fraud, murder, suicide and hate, domestic violence...plenty of that, mystery, weird noises in a dilapidated mansion, the lopsided shaped edifice, inside an old recluse woman with bitter memories and a son which he and her the mother, dislike each other stating it mildly.... A evil man who likes doing evil things, however some think this is a comedy ....to each their own. Arthur Clennam the son after twenty
I love Dickens. Any and all. --Read with Victorians! Jan 2011. Just reminds me how much I love Dickens. As I began this, the tone of it made me wonder and I had to look up a list of Dickens' works to see where this one fell. It sounded darker, more cynical, more like "Hard Times" to me than the more lighthearted and sarcastic things like "Oliver." It was indeed published just after "Hard Times." Funny, then I read on a Dickens site the very same observation. I actually like the tone of the later
Reading Little Dorrit is like having your own portable fireplace to cozy up to. Its also huge, like a log or a brick. At 1,000 pages, if you set it on fire, it would burn for a long time. But I dont mean it that way. I mean reading Little Dorrit makes you want to take off your shoes, don your housecoat and lean way the hell over the open pages, soaking up all that homey tenderness.Reading Little Dorrit is like suffering the ritual of birthday cake. Its also enormous like cake is enormous, heavy
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