The Penguin English Library Edition of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens' You talk very easily of hours sir! How long do you suppose sir that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'A masterly evocation of the state & psychology of imprisonment Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit his mother's seamstress & in the affairs of Amy's father a man of shabby grandeur long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea As Arthur discovers the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect many lives from Mr Panks the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard to Merdle an unscrupulous financier The Penguin English Library
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