Little Dorrit; The Works of Charles Dickens Vol. XII [Import]
Language: English
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1909
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: The Librarian's Books, Cranford, NJ, U.S.A.The Librarian's Books
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Condition: Used - Poor
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A Poor copy of Volume number 12 in the New Century Library series: The Works of Charles Dickens. Extensive wear to soft, red leather boards. Spine has invisible tape holding it together. Extensive chipping, tears and creasing to boards. Chipping to top corners of boards while the bottom front corner is missing. Endpapers are loose, torn and creased. Boards are separated from pages along spine. Previous owner's name in black ink on flyeaf. Many corners of the pages are creased. 895 pages. Previous seller's note in pencil on rear flyleaf. Contents:"Book the First: Poverty: Chapter 1. Sun and Shadow; Chapter 2. Fellow Travellers; Chapter 3. Home; Chapter 4. Mrs. Flintwich Has a Dream; Chapter 5. Family Affairs; Chapter 6. The Father of the Marshalsea; Chapter 7. The Child of the Marshalsea; Chapter 8. The Lock; Chapter 9. Little Mother; Chapter 10. Containing the Whole Science of Government; Chapter 11. Let Loose; Chapter 12. Bleeding Heart Yard; Chapter 13. Patriarchal; Chapter 14. Little Dorrit's Party; Chapter 15. Mrs. Flintwich Has another Dream; Chapter 16. Nobody's Weakness; Chapter 17. Nobody's Rival; Chapter 18. Little Dorrit's Lover; Chapter 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in Two or Three Relations; Chapter 20. Moving in Society; Chapter 21. Mr. Merdle's Complaint; Chapter 22. A Puzzle; Chapter 23. Machinery in Motion; Chapter 24. Fortune-Telling; Chapter 25. Conspirators and Others; Chapter 26. Nobody's State of Mind; Chapter 27. Five-and-Twenty; Chapter 28. Nobody's Disappearance; Chapter 29. Mrs. Flintwich Goes on Dreaming; Chapter 30. The Word of a Gentleman; Chapter 31. Spirit; Chapter 32. More Fortune-Telling; Chapter 33. Mrs. Merdle's Complaint; Chapter 34. A Shoal of Barnacles; Chapter 35. What Was Behind Mr. Pancks on Little Dorrit's Hand; Chapter 36. The Marshalsea Becomes an Orphan; Book the Second: Riches: Chapter 1. Fellow-Travellers; Chapter 2. Mrs. General; Chapter 3. On the Road; Chapter 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit; Chapter 5. Something Wrong Somewhere; Chapter 6. Something Right Somewhere; Chapter 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism; Chapter 8. The Dowager Mrs. Gowan Is Reminded that It Never Does; Chapter 9. Appearance and Disappearance; Chapter 10. The Dreams of Mrs. Flintwich thicken; Chapter 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit; Chapter 12. In Which a Great Patriotic Conference Is Holden; Chapter 13. The Progress of an Epidemic; Chapter 14. Taking Advice; Chapter 15. No Just Cause of Impediment Why These Two Persons should not be joined together; Chapter 16. Getting On; Chapter 17. Missing; Chapter 18. A Castle in the Air; Chapter 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air; Chapter 20. Introduces the Next; Chapter 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor; Chapter 22. Who Passes By the Road So Late?; Chapter 23. Mistress Affery Makes a Conditional Promise respecting her Dreams; Chapter 24. The Evening of a Long Day; Chapter 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office; Chapter 26. Reaping the Whirlwind; Chapter 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea; Chapter 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea; Chapter 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea; Chapter 30. Closing In; Chapter 31. Closed; Chapter 32. Going; Chapter 33. Going; Chapter 34. Gone"Summary: Little Dorrit grows up in the Marshalsea debtor's prison, where her father has been imprisoned ever since her birth. When Mr Dorrit's debt is excused, he is anxious to forget his inglorious past and be accepted back into the best circles of society. Dickens criticizes the hierarchical society which would demand such an impossible thing of a man, and also questions which class of their acquaintance are good people and true friends. When one of London's biggest banks fail, everyone is affected, high and low alike.". …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Little Dorrit; The Works of Charles Dickens Vol. XII [Import]
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons, London
- Publication year
- 1909
- Condition
- Poor
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Full-Leather
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Bacon
- Dimensions
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- General Fiction
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