Little Dorrit

• One of Dickens's greatest works of social criticism, Little Dorrit's scathing indictment of mid-Victorian England centres on the Marshalsea Prison and the Dorrit family who live there, against a background of government incompetence and financial scandal.
• This edition uses the definitive Clarendon text and includes all the original illustrations by Phiz.
• Wide-ranging introduction highlights Dickens's move from social and political to more personal, even spiritual concerns while maintaining the wide scope of his mature fiction.
• Appendix reproduces Dickens's number plans for the novel.
• Map of London.
• Up-to-date bibliography and full chronology of the author's life and times.

New to this edition

• All the illustrations by Phiz (previous edition only included 8 out of 41).
• New Introduction by Dennis Walder.
• New bibliography.
• Substantially revised and updated notes.
• New, fuller chronology.
• Map of London.
• Text entirely re-set in a larger, more attractive, and unworn typeface.

Readership: Readers of classic fiction, especially Victorian literature, readers of Dickens; students of the 19th century novel, Victorian studies, Society and the Novel, the Novel and Religion, Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

Harvey Peter Sucksmith edited the definitive critical edition of Little Dorrit for the Clarendon Dickens, and a critical edition of Collins's The Woman in White for Oxford English Novels.

Dennis Walder is the author of Literature in the Modern World (OUP, 1990, rev. edn. 2003) and editions of the plays of Athol Fugard. For OWC he has edited Dickens's Dombey and Son. His most recent book is Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory (Routledge, 2010). He was a judge for the Commonwealth Writers' prize, 2011.