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
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface To The 1857 Edition
38Chapter 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
2Book The First: Poverty
39Book The Second: Riches
3Chapter 1. Sun and Shadow
40Chapter 1. Fellow Travellers
4Chapter 2 Fellow Travellers
41Chapter 2. Mrs General
5Chapter 3. Home
42Chapter 3. On the Road
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6Chapter 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream
43Chapter 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit
7Chapter 5. Family Affairs
44Chapter 5. Something Wrong Somewhere
8Chapter 6. The Father of the Marshalsea
45Chapter 6. Something Right Somewhere
9Chapter 7. The Child of the Marshalsea
46Chapter 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism
10Chapter 8. The Lock
47Chapter 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that 'It Never Does'
11Chapter 9. Little Mother
48Chapter 9. Appearance and Disappearance
12Chapter 10. Containing the whole Science of Government
49Chapter 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken
13Chapter 11. Let Loose
50Chapter 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit
14Chapter 12. Bleeding Heart Yard
51Chapter 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden
15Chapter 13. Patriarchal
52Chapter 13. The Progress of an Epidemic
16Chapter 14. Little Dorrit's Party
53Chapter 14. Taking Advice
17Chapter 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream
54Chapter 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together
18Chapter 16. Nobody's Weakness
55Chapter 16. Getting on
19Chapter 17. Nobody's Rival
56Chapter 17. Missing
20Chapter 18. Little Dorrit's Lover
57Chapter 18. A Castle in the Air
21Chapter 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
58Chapter 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air
22Chapter 20. Moving in Society
59Chapter 20. Introduces the next
23Chapter 21. Mr Merdle's Complaint
60Chapter 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor
24Chapter 22. A Puzzle
61Chapter 22. Who passes by this Road so late?
25Chapter 23. Machinery in Motion
62Chapter 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise,
26Chapter 24. Fortune-Telling
63Chapter 24. The Evening of a Long Day
27Chapter 25. Conspirators and Others
64Chapter 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office
28Chapter 26. Nobody's State of Mind
65Chapter 26. Reaping the Whirlwind
29Chapter 27. Five-and-Twenty
66Chapter 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea
30Chapter 28. Nobody's Disappearance
67Chapter 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea
31Chapter 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
68Chapter 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea
32Chapter 30. The Word of a Gentleman
69Chapter 30. Closing in
33Chapter 31. Spirit
70Chapter 31. Closed
34Chapter 32. More Fortune-Telling
71Chapter 32. Going
35Chapter 33. Mrs Merdle's Complaint
72Chapter 33. Going!
36Chapter 34. A Shoal of Barnacles
73Chapter 34. Gone
37Chapter 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit's Hand
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