{"product_id":"little-dorrit","title":"Little Dorrit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Dorrit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStephen Wall's introduction examines Dickens's transformation of childhood memories of his father's incarceration in the Marshalsea debtors' prison. This revised edition includes expanded notes, appendices and suggestion for further reading by Helen Small, a chronology of Dickens's life and works, and original illustrations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note this copy has some light creases on the covers and spine.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781853261824\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize: Paperback, 801 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: \u003cspan\u003eWordsworth Editions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: 1857\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B - Good Condition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46701510099100,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/1597\/0972\/files\/littledorrit_2.jpg?v=1776752967","url":"https:\/\/booksforless.co.nz\/products\/little-dorrit","provider":"Books For Less","version":"1.0","type":"link"}