Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens with forty illustrations by "Phiz"

Published by Chapman and Hall limited and Henry Frowde, 1906

About this Item

Condition: (see pics.) 40 black and white illustrations. Deceptively light as the pages are wafer thin despite being over 964 of them and no lighter than an average paperback. Beautifully decorated boards and spine. Rubbed to edges and corners due to age. Neat, clean and tight copy. Assume 1900 printing as part of a bestseller list in 17 volumes. Synopsis: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. Seller Inventory # ABE-1648664027853

Bibliographic Details

Title: Little Dorrit

Publisher: Chapman and Hall limited and Henry Frowde

Publication Date: 1906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Limited Edition