Little Dorrit

Written by:
Charles Dickens
Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Unabridged Audiobook

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6
Narrator
2
Release Date
January 2006
Duration
32 hours 0 minutes
Summary
Little Amy Dorrit was born in debtor’s prison, where her father, an aristocrat by birth, has been an inmate for the past twenty years.

Though her father is too proud to acknowledge their reduced status, Amy secretly works as a seamstress to support her family. In this way she meets and befriends Arthur, her employer’s son, who wants to help.

When Arthur uncovers an unknown inheritance due to Mr. Dorrit, the family is finally freed from prison. Newly wealthy, they travel to Italy, where Mr. Dorrit instructs his children to sever old connections and learn the ways of the upper class. But leaving their past behind proves not to be so easy.

Meanwhile, their benefactor, Arthur, falls on hard times himself when he becomes the victim of a gigantic financial fraud. When he next meets Little Dorrit, their places are reversed: Arthur is imprisoned in the Marshalsea, too ashamed of his reduced status to declare his love. But to Little Dorrit, love has always transcended class.

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens’ maturity.
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Anonymous

Classic Dickens - Power Corrupts and Love Wins. Lots of social narration, occasionally it feels like fodder but it is well written. Simon Vance does a fantastic narration.

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Robert B.

I only wish that Charles Dickens had written a hundred more books and that Simon Vance had narrated them for the ages. Pure pleasure.

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