Little Dorrit (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Little Dorrit 20 hours ago.

• 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. Pancks, 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.

Kevin approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Little Dorrit Saturday, October 31 2009.

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Little Dorrit Wednesday, October 7 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Harvey Peter Sucksmith: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the quotations of Little Dorrit Saturday, September 5 2009.

• Added a quotation: “The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings”
• Added a quotation: “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors”
• Added a quotation: “So diminutive she looked, so fragile and defenceless against the bleak damp weather, flitting along in the shuffling shadow of her charge, that he felt, in his compassion, and in his habit of considering her a child apart from the rest of the rough world, as if he would have been glad to take her up in his arms and carry her to her journey's end”

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Little Dorrit Saturday, September 5 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Harvey Peter Sucksmith: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray changed the title of Little Dorrit Saturday, September 5 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Frabjous Day’s request to combine 8 books, including Little Dorrit, Saturday, September 5 2009.

Frabjous Day submitted a request to combine 8 books, including Little Dorrit, Saturday, September 5 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Little Dorrit Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857 edition.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Little Dorrit Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Charles Dickens: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Harvey Peter Sucksmith: (Primary None)