Little dorrit / Charles Dickens ; edited by Harvey Peter Sucksmith with an introduction and notes by Dennis Walder.
Material type:
TextSeries: Oxford world's classicsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Edition: New edDescription: xl, 854 p. : ill., map ; 20 cmISBN: 9780199596485 (pbk.)Subject(s): Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England) -- Fiction | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction | Debt, Imprisonment for -- Fiction | Children of prisoners -- Fiction | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction | London (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Didactic fiction. | Love stories. DDC classification: 823/.8 Summary: 19TH CENTURY FICTION. 'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.' Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their self-made social and mental prisons. Against a background of government incompetence and financial scandal, he searches for the key to the affairs of the Dorrit family, prisoners for debt in the Marshalsea. He discovers through the seamstress Amy Dorrit the fulfilment of which he dreams, but only after he learns to understand his own heart. Revelation and redemption haunt Dickens's portrayal of human relations as fundamentally distorted by class and money. The swindling financier Merdle, the bureaucratic nightmare of the Circumlocution Office, and a teeming cast of characters display the inadequacy of secular morality in the face of contemporary social and political confusion.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F DIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111050615382 |
Includes bibliographical references.
19TH CENTURY FICTION. 'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.' Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their self-made social and mental prisons. Against a background of government incompetence and financial scandal, he searches for the key to the affairs of the Dorrit family, prisoners for debt in the Marshalsea. He discovers through the seamstress Amy Dorrit the fulfilment of which he dreams, but only after he learns to understand his own heart. Revelation and redemption haunt Dickens's portrayal of human relations as fundamentally distorted by class and money. The swindling financier Merdle, the bureaucratic nightmare of the Circumlocution Office, and a teeming cast of characters display the inadequacy of secular morality in the face of contemporary social and political confusion.
There are no comments on this title.