Little Dorrit

 

By

 

Charles Dickens

 

 


CONTENTS:

 

PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITION.. 4

BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY.. 6

CHAPTER 1 Sun and Shadow.. 6

CHAPTER 2 Fellow Travellers. 18

CHAPTER 3 Home. 30

CHAPTER 4 Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream.. 42

CHAPTER 5 Family Affairs. 45

CHAPTER 6 The Father of the Marshalsea. 55

CHAPTER 7 The Child of the Marshalsea. 64

CHAPTER 8 The Lock. 74

CHAPTER 9 Little Mother 84

CHAPTER 10 Containing the whole Science of Government 96

CHAPTER 11 Let Loose. 114

CHAPTER 12 Bleeding Heart Yard. 123

CHAPTER 13 Patriarchal 130

CHAPTER 14 Little Dorrit's Party. 149

CHAPTER 15 Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream.. 160

CHAPTER 16 Nobody's Weakness. 168

CHAPTER 17 Nobody's Rival 180

CHAPTER 18 Little Dorrit's Lover 188

CHAPTER 19 The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations. 196

CHAPTER 20 Moving in Society. 205

CHAPTER 21 Mr Merdle's Complaint 217

CHAPTER 22 A Puzzle. 224

CHAPTER 23 Machinery in Motion. 232

CHAPTER 24 Fortune-Telling. 246

CHAPTER 25 Conspirators and Others. 260

CHAPTER 26 Nobody's State of Mind. 268

CHAPTER 27 Five-and-Twenty. 280

CHAPTER 28 Nobody's Disappearance. 291

CHAPTER 29 Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming. 298

CHAPTER 30 The Word of a Gentleman. 305

CHAPTER 31 Spirit 319

CHAPTER 32 More Fortune-Telling. 332

CHAPTER 33 Mrs Merdle's Complaint 341

CHAPTER 34 A Shoal of Barnacles. 350

CHAPTER 35 What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit's Hand. 358

CHAPTER 36 The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan. 370

BOOK THE SECOND RICHES. 376

CHAPTER 1 Fellow Travellers. 376

CHAPTER 2 Mrs General 390

CHAPTER 3 On the Road. 394

CHAPTER 4 A Letter from Little Dorrit 406

CHAPTER 5 Something Wrong Somewhere. 409

CHAPTER 6 Something Right Somewhere. 422

CHAPTER 7 Mostly, Prunes and Prism.. 435

CHAPTER 8 The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that 'It Never Does' 445

CHAPTER 9 Appearance and Disappearance. 455

CHAPTER 10 The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken. 469

CHAPTER 11 A Letter from Little Dorrit 476

CHAPTER 12 In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden. 481

CHAPTER 13 The Progress of an Epidemic.