TY - BOOK AU - Dickens, Charles, AU - Browne, H. K., TI - Little Dorrit: volume I T2 - The works of Charles Dickens PY - 1881/// CY - London PB - Chapman & Hall KW - Prisons KW - Fiction KW - England KW - Social conditions KW - 18th century N2 - "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 Panks, 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..."-- Publisher description. ER -