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Red Classics Little Dorrit Mass market paperbound - 2008

by Charles Dickens


About this book

Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons & mdash; in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.


From the publisher

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 the Marshalsea. 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.

First Edition Identification


Bradbury and Evans published a First Editions, First Printing softcover 20 part collection in London, 1855. The 20 parts are bound in 19 blue wrappers designed by Phiz.  With 40 black and white plates, including 8 dark plates, also by Phiz. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. 


Bradbury and Evans published a First Edition, First Issue hardcover in London, 1857. The book is bound in brown Morocco by Sawyer, with boards double ruled in gilt. Spine is lettered and stamped in gilt as well, with marbled endpapers, and gilt edges. Illustrated by H.K. Browne, with forty inserted plates, including the 8 “dark plates” and the frontispiece and engraved title. The edition was bound from the original monthly parts.


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  • Title Red Classics Little Dorrit
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Pages 1088
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Date 2008
  • ISBN 9780141037394 / 0141037393
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers. Stephen Wall is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Helen Small is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
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