Little Dorrit
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Contents
- Book the First Poverty
- I. Sun and Shadow
- II. Fellow Travellers
- III. Home
- IV. Mrs. Flintwinch has a Dream
- V. Family Affairs
- VI. The Father of the Marshalsea
- VII. The Child of the Marshalsea
- VIII. The Lock
- IX. Little Mother
- X. Containing the whole Science of Government
- XI. Let Loose
- XII. Bleeding Heart Yard
- XIII. Patriarchal
- XIV. Little Dorrit’s Party
- XV. Mrs. Flintwinch has another Dream
- XVI. Nobody’s Weakness
- XVII. Nobody’s Rival
- XVIII. Little Dorrit’s Lover
- XIX. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
- XX. Moving in Society
- XXI. Mr. Merdle’s Complaint
- XXII. A Puzzle
- XXIII. Machinery in Motion
- XXIV. Fortune-Telling
- XXV. Conspirators and Others
- XXVI. Nobody’s State of Mind
- XXVII. Five-and-Twenty
- XXVIII. Nobody’s Disappearance
- XXIX. Mrs. Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
- XXX. The Word of a Gentleman
- XXXI. Spirit
- XXXII. More Fortune-Telling
- XXXIII. Mrs. Merdle’s Complaint
- XXXIV. A Shoal of Barnacles
- XXXV. What was behind Mr. Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand
- XXXVI. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
- Book the Second Riches
- I. Fellow Travellers
- II. Mrs. General
- III. On the Road
- IV. A Letter from Little Dorrit
- V. Something Wrong Somewhere
- VI. Something Right Somewhere
- VII. Mostly, Prunes and Prism
- VIII. The Dowager Mrs. Gowan is reminded that It Never Does
- IX. Appearance and Disappearance
- X. The Dreams of Mrs. Flintwinch thicken
- XI. A Letter from Little Dorrit
- XII. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden
- XIII. The Progress of an Epidemic
- XIV. Taking Advice
- XV. No Just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together
- XVI. Getting on
- XVII. Missing
- XVIII. A Castle in the Air
- XIX. The Storming of the Castle in the Air
- XX. Introduces the next
- XXI. The History of a Self Tormentor
- XXII. Who passes by this Road so late?
- XXIII. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams
- XXIV. The Evening of a Long Day
- XXV. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office
- XXVI. Reaping the Whirlwind
- XXVII. The Pupil of the Marshalsea
- XXVIII. An Appearance in the Marshalsea
- XXIX. A Plea in the Marshalsea
- XXX. Closing in
- XXXI. Closed
- XXXII. Going
- XXXIII. Going!
- XXXIV. Gone
A sweet-natured seamstress has lived all her life in the Marshalsea debtors' prison, where her family has been in custody since before her birth. When Little Dorrit ventures out of jail to work, she meets Arthur Clennam, who's trying to free himself from the burden of his family business. The state of captivity — as an experience, metaphor, and theme — is the focus of Little Dorrit. Charles Dickens drew upon childhood memories of his father's confinement to tell this story of people imprisoned by poverty, ignorance, and the lure of money and power. Acclaimed by George Bernard Shaw as Dickens' "masterpiece among many masterpieces," the novel presents a radical indictment of the arrogance and parasitism of genteel society. Its satire of corrupt bureaucracies, embodied by the Circumlocution Office and its policy of "How not to do it," remains as relevant to our time as it was the Victorians'. Blending tragedy, comedy, and mystery, the tale abounds in Dickens' exuberant language and deft characterizations.