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When Arthur Clennam returns to London after many years in China working for the family business, he wants to learn whether or not his father's dying words and a watch with a stange inscription have anything to do with his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to...

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Main Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series:The Oxford illustrated Dickens
Subjects:
Children of prisoners > England > London > Fiction.
Debt, Imprisonment for > Fiction.
England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Enfants de prisonniers > Angleterre > Londres > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Children of prisoners
Debt, Imprisonment for
Manners and customs
England
England > London
1800-1899
Fiction
Fiction.
Romans.
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Summary:When Arthur Clennam returns to London after many years in China working for the family business, he wants to learn whether or not his father's dying words and a watch with a stange inscription have anything to do with his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Item Description:Reprint. Originally published as part of the New Oxford illustrated Dickens, 1953.
Physical Description:xxvi, 826 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN:0192545124
9780192545121