Little Dorrit
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Blackstone Publishing , 2006.
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Amy Dorrit’s father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. Clennam. But Amy’s fortunes are about to change: the arrival of Mrs. Clennam’s son Arthur, back from working in China, heralds the beginning of stunning revelations not just about Amy but also about Arthur himself.Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning example of how thoroughly Dickens could put his flair for the theatrical and his comic genius the service of his passion for justice.(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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eAudiobook
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Unabridged
Street Date
01/01/2006
Language
English
ISBN
9781483088730
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dickens, C., & Vance, S. (2006). Little Dorrit (Unabridged). Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dickens, Charles and Simon Vance. 2006. Little Dorrit. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dickens, Charles and Simon Vance. Little Dorrit Blackstone Publishing, 2006.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Dickens, C. and Vance, S. (2006). Little dorrit. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dickens, Charles, and Simon Vance. Little Dorrit Unabridged, Blackstone Publishing, 2006.
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