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Fiction · 1857

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Reading time
about 25 h
Length
345,777 words · 756 pages in print
Structure
70 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Little Dorrit, first published in 1857, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, machine-cleaned and carefully typeset, free to read online and available in print. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Preface to the 1857 Edition
  2. Book the First — Poverty
  3. Chapter 1 — Sun and Shadow
  4. Chapter 2 — Fellow Travellers
  5. Chapter 3 — Home
  6. Chapter 4 — Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream
  7. Chapter 5 — Family Affairs
  8. Chapter 6 — The Father of the Marshalsea
  9. Chapter 7 — The Child of the Marshalsea
  10. Chapter 8 — The Lock
  11. Chapter 9 — Little Mother
  12. Chapter 10 — Containing the whole Science of Government
  13. Chapter 11 — Let Loose
  14. Chapter 12 — Bleeding Heart Yard
  15. Chapter 13 — Patriarchal
  16. Chapter 14 — Little Dorrit’s Party
  17. Chapter 15 — Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream
  18. Chapter 16 — Nobody’s Weakness
  19. Chapter 17 — Nobody’s Rival
  20. Chapter 18 — Little Dorrit’s Lover
  21. Chapter 19 — The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
  22. Chapter 20 — Moving in Society
  23. Chapter 21 — Mr Merdle’s Complaint
  24. Chapter 22 — A Puzzle
  25. Chapter 23 — Machinery in Motion
  26. Chapter 24 — Fortune-Telling
  27. Chapter 25 — Conspirators and Others
  28. Chapter 26 — Nobody’s State of Mind
  29. Chapter 27 — Five-and-Twenty
  30. Chapter 28 — Nobody’s Disappearance
  31. Chapter 29 — Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
  32. Chapter 30 — The Word of a Gentleman
  33. Chapter 31 — Spirit
  34. Chapter 32 — More Fortune-Telling
  35. Chapter 33 — Mrs Merdle’s Complaint
  36. Chapter 34 — A Shoal of Barnacles
  37. Chapter 35 — What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand
  38. Chapter 36 — The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
  39. Book the Second — Riches
  40. Chapter 1 — Fellow Travellers
  41. Chapter 2 — Mrs General
  42. Chapter 3 — On the Road
  43. Chapter 4 — A Letter from Little Dorrit
  44. Chapter 5 — Something Wrong Somewhere
  45. Chapter 6 — Something Right Somewhere
  46. Chapter 7 — Mostly, Prunes and Prism
  47. Chapter 8 — The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’
  48. Chapter 9 — Appearance and Disappearance
  49. Chapter 10 — The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken
  50. Chapter 11 — A Letter from Little Dorrit
  51. Chapter 12 — In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden
  52. Chapter 13 — The Progress of an Epidemic
  53. Chapter 14 — Taking Advice
  54. Chapter 15 — No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together
  55. Chapter 16 — Getting on
  56. Chapter 17 — Missing
  57. Chapter 18 — A Castle in the Air
  58. Chapter 19 — The Storming of the Castle in the Air
  59. Chapter 20 — Introduces the next
  60. Chapter 21 — The History of a Self-Tormentor
  61. Chapter 22 — Who passes by this Road so late?
  62. Chapter 23 — Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams
  63. Chapter 24 — The Evening of a Long Day
  64. Chapter 25 — The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office
  65. Chapter 26 — Reaping the Whirlwind
  66. Chapter 27 — The Pupil of the Marshalsea
  67. Chapter 28 — An Appearance in the Marshalsea
  68. Chapter 29 — A Plea in the Marshalsea
  69. Chapter 30 — Closing in
  70. Chapter 31 — Closed
  71. Chapter 32 — Going
  72. Chapter 33 — Going!
  73. Chapter 34 — Gone

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1812–1870 · Victorian

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