Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens FULL Audiobook
Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirizes some shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work and yet incarcerated until they had repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the impotent bureaucracy of the British government, in this novel in the form of the fictional "Circumlocution Office". Dickens also satirizes the stratification of society that results from the British class system.
The novel begins in Marseille "thirty years ago" (c. 1826), with the notorious murderer Rigaud narrating to his prison cellmate John Baptist Cavalletto how he had killed his wife, just prior to being taken to trial. Businessman Arthur Clennam is detained with other travelers in quarantine in Marseilles and becomes friends with the merchants Mr. and Mrs Meagles, their spoiled daughter "Pet", and their maid, an orphan named Harriet Beadle, who the family has nicknamed Tattycoram. Another traveler, Miss Wade, takes an interest in the rebellious Tattycoram. Arthur has spent the last twenty years in China with his father, handling that part of the family business; his father died recently there. Arthur is now returning to London to see his mother, Mrs Clennam. Mr Flintwinch has a mild attack of irritability While Arthur's father was on his deathbed, he gave Arthur a watch to give to his mother with a message inside, murmuring "Your mother," which Arthur delivers to Mrs Clennam. Inside the watch casing is an old silk paper with the initials DNF (do not forget) worked in beads. Arthur asks about the message, but the implacable Mrs Clennam, who now uses a wheelchair, refuses to tell him what it means. Arthur tells her that he will not continue in the family business and seeks new opportunity on his own. Jeremiah Flintwinch then presses Mrs Clennam on her failure to tell Arthur of the past. In London, William Dorrit, imprisoned as a debtor, has been a resident of Marshalsea debtors' prison for over twenty years. He has three children: Edward (known as Tip), Fanny and Amy. The youngest daughter, Amy, was born in the prison and is affectionately known as Little Dorrit. Their mother died when Amy was eight years old. Tip has recently been imprisoned for his own gambling debts and the ambitious Fanny lives outside the prison with William's older brother Frederick.
The novel is divided into two parts: "Poverty" and "Riches". The first part deals with the suffering of the poor and the second part deals with the rise of the rich. The novel is a complex work, with many subplots and characters. It is a social commentary on the conditions of the poor in Victorian England, and it is also a love story. The novel is notable for its portrayal of the Marshalsea debtors' prison, which was a real prison in London. Dickens's own father had been imprisoned there, and Dickens himself had to work in a blacking factory as a child when his father was in prison. The novel is also notable for its portrayal of the Circumlocution Office, which is a satirical representation of the bureaucracy of the British government.
Overall, Little Dorrit is a novel that explores the themes of poverty, social injustice, and the human condition. It is a work that is both entertaining and thought-provoking, and it is a testament to the genius of Charles Dickens..
More: Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Marshalsea prison
debtors' prisons, Arthur Clennam, Amy Dorrit
William Dorrit, Jeremiah Flintwinch, Mrs. Clennam
Tattycoram, Miss Wade, Edward (Tip)
Fanny, Frederick, poverty
social class, corruption, money
satire, government, society
bureaucracy, Dante, imprisonment
visual quality, stereoscope, heteroglossia
parallelism, lieu de mémoire
00:00:00 Preface to the 1857 Edition
00:04:28 Little Dorrit. Book I: Poverty
00:39:33 II: Fellow Travellers
01:12:18 III: Home
01:45:43 IV: Mrs. Flintwinch Has a Dream
01:53:45 V: Family Affairs
02:22:33 VI: The Father of the Marshalsea
02:49:26 VII: The Child of the Marshalsea
03:15:46 VIII: The Lock
03:43:59 IX: Little Mother
04:18:03 X: Containing the Whole Science of Government
05:08:08 XI: Let Loose
05:33:56 XII: Bleeding Heart Yard
05:57:12 XIII: Patriarchal
06:54:32 XIV: Little Dorrit’s Party
07:24:38 XV: Mrs. Flintwinch Has Another Dream
07:47:17 XVI: Nobody’s Weakness
08:22:14 XVII: Nobody’s Rival
08:45:49 XVIII: Little Dorrit’s Lover
09:10:52 XIX: The Father of the Marshalsea in Two or Three Relations
09:40:08 XX: Moving in Society
10:14:32 XXI: Mr. Merdle’s Complaint
10:36:23 XXII:
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