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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
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One of Charles Dickens's most personally resonant novels, Little Dorrit speaks across the centuries to the modern audience. Its depiction of shady financiers and banking collapses seems uncannily topical, as does Dickens's compassionate admiration for Amy Dorrit, the "child of the Marshalsea," as she struggles to hold her family together in the face of neglect, irresponsibility, and ruin. Intricate in its plotting, the novel also satirizes the cumbersome machinery of government. For Dickens, Little Dorrit marked a return to some of the most harrowing scenes of his childhood, with its graphic depiction of the trauma of the debtors' prison and its portrait of a world ignored by society. The novel explores not only the literal prison but also the figurative jails that characters build for themselves.

Public Domain (P)2011 Tantor Classics Drama & Plays European Fiction Historical Fiction World Literature

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I was inspired to try this tome, after watching the BBC drama, starring Tom Courtenay and Claire Foy. I'm more Hardy than Dickens, Victorian novel fans usually come down in favour of one author or the other. BUT I was very pleasantly surprised by this book, although the usual quasi-racism about foreigners with flexible attitude to race, is present. The legendary Tattycorum, a foundling, discovers the 'error' of her freedom seeking ways, which I didn't like either, A product of its time though, but avoid if you'd struggle to let this sort of thing pass. The narrator does a very good job. However, he finds it more difficult to hold a Cockney accent, than that of a French person. I loved the Panks character most of all - he's a cross between a dunning clerk for a rackrent landlord, and a fortune teller. A definite hit - and the BBC drama is a surprisingly faithful adaptation.

Excellent narration ... and a very satisfying tale

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