Editorial Penguin UK
Fecha de edición septiembre 2003
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780141439969
1024 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'
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. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.
Stephen Wall's introduction examines Dickens's transformation of childhood memories of his father's incarceration in the Marshalsea. This edition includes expanded notes, appendices and suggestions for further reading by Helen Small, with a chronology of Dickens's life and works by Stephen Wall, and original illustrations reproduced from new photographs.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) es uno de los grandes narradores ingleses de todos los tiempos. Entre sus obras más conocidas se cuentan "Tiempos difíciles", "Grandes esperanzas", "Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield", "La tienda de antigüedades", "Historia de dos ciudades" y "Canción de Navidad", todas ellas publicadas en Alianza Editorial además de sus "Cuentos de miedo".
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