Length36h 44m
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The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, 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 debtor's prisons—in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens' other critiques in this particular novel concern the social safety net: industry and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury. The novel begins in Marseilles "thirty years ago" (i.e., c. 1826), with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his cell mate how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is returning to London to see his mother after the death of his father, with whom he had lived for twenty years in China. On his deathbed, his father had given him a mysterious watch murmuring "Your mother," which Arthur naturally assumed was intended for Mrs. Clennam, whom he and everyone else believed to be his mother. Inside the watch casing was an old silk paper with the initials DNF (Do Not Forget) worked into it in beads. It was a message, but when Arthur showed it to harsh and implacable Mrs Clennam, a religious fanatic, she refused to tell him what it meant and the two become estranged… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length36 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface To The 1857 Edition
2Book The First: Poverty
3Chapter 1. Sun and Shadow
4Chapter 2 Fellow Travellers
5Chapter 3. Home
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6Chapter 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream
7Chapter 5. Family Affairs
8Chapter 6. The Father of the Marshalsea
9Chapter 7. The Child of the Marshalsea
10Chapter 8. The Lock
11Chapter 9. Little Mother
12Chapter 10. Containing the whole Science of Government
13Chapter 11. Let Loose
14Chapter 12. Bleeding Heart Yard
15Chapter 13. Patriarchal
16Chapter 14. Little Dorrit's Party
17Chapter 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream
18Chapter 16. Nobody's Weakness
19Chapter 17. Nobody's Rival
20Chapter 18. Little Dorrit's Lover
21Chapter 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
22Chapter 20. Moving in Society
23Chapter 21. Mr Merdle's Complaint
24Chapter 22. A Puzzle
25Chapter 23. Machinery in Motion
26Chapter 24. Fortune-Telling
27Chapter 25. Conspirators and Others
28Chapter 26. Nobody's State of Mind
29Chapter 27. Five-and-Twenty
30Chapter 28. Nobody's Disappearance
31Chapter 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
32Chapter 30. The Word of a Gentleman
33Chapter 31. Spirit
34Chapter 32. More Fortune-Telling
35Chapter 33. Mrs Merdle's Complaint
36Chapter 34. A Shoal of Barnacles
37Chapter 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit's Hand
38Chapter 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
39Book The Second: Riches
40Chapter 1. Fellow Travellers
41Chapter 2. Mrs General
42Chapter 3. On the Road
43Chapter 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit
44Chapter 5. Something Wrong Somewhere
45Chapter 6. Something Right Somewhere
46Chapter 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism
47Chapter 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that 'It Never Does'
48Chapter 9. Appearance and Disappearance
49Chapter 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken
50Chapter 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit
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