Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens

Summary

Little Dorrit is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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Chapters (70)

  1. 1. Sun and Shadow
  2. 2. Fellow Travellers
  3. 3. Home
  4. 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream
  5. 5. Family Affairs
  6. 6. The Father of the Marshalsea
  7. 7. The Child of the Marshalsea
  8. 8. The Lock
  9. 9. Little Mother
  10. 10. Containing the whole Science of Government
  11. 11. Let Loose
  12. 12. Bleeding Heart Yard
  13. 13. Patriarchal
  14. 14. Little Dorrit’s Party
  15. 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream
  16. 16. Nobody’s Weakness
  17. 17. Nobody’s Rival
  18. 18. Little Dorrit’s Lover
  19. 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
  20. 20. Moving in Society
  21. 21. Mr Merdle’s Complaint
  22. 22. A Puzzle
  23. 23. Machinery in Motion
  24. 24. Fortune-Telling
  25. 25. Conspirators and Others
  26. 26. Nobody’s State of Mind
  27. 27. Five-and-Twenty
  28. 28. Nobody’s Disappearance
  29. 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
  30. 30. The Word of a Gentleman
  31. 31. Spirit
  32. 32. More Fortune-Telling
  33. 33. Mrs Merdle’s Complaint
  34. 34. A Shoal of Barnacles
  35. 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand
  36. 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
  37. 37. Fellow Travellers
  38. 38. Mrs General
  39. 39. On the Road
  40. 40. A Letter from Little Dorrit
  41. 41. Something Wrong Somewhere
  42. 42. Something Right Somewhere
  43. 43. Mostly, Prunes and Prism
  44. 44. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’
  45. 45. Appearance and Disappearance
  46. 46. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken
  47. 47. A Letter from Little Dorrit
  48. 48. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden
  49. 49. The Progress of an Epidemic
  50. 50. Taking Advice

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