''In Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached'' George Orwell

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens''s maturityIt follows Arthur Clennam who, returning to England after many years abroad, takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother''s seamstress, who was born and raised in the Marshalsea where her father has long been imprisoned for debt. 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, to the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office and Merdle, an unscrupulous financier

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Wall and Helen Small

Format Häftad Omfång 1024 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2003-09-25 ISBN 9780141439969