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Little Dorrit
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Category :
Classics
Publisher :
Blackstone Audio Inc
Author :
Charles Dickens
Narrator :
Robert Whitfield
Length :
32 hours (Unabridged)
Physical Price :
$64.95
Download Price :
$33.49
Format :
Encoded Windows Media
© 2006 Blackstone Audio Inc
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P.E.F. Winner of
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Earphones Award
"Dickens fans should not miss this almost perfect performance of his most mature
work."
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"Little Dorrit" is Amy, born in debtor's prison, the youngest child of debtor William Dorrit,
an inmate of the Marshalsea. The two are befriended by a man whose wife hires Little Dorrit
as a seamstress. When William Dorrit inherits a fortune, he escapes the Marshalsea, and
the newly wealthy family travels to Italy.
Meantime, their benefactor falls onto hard times of his own, when he becomes the victim of a
gigantic fraud perpetrated by an eminent financier and is himself sentenced to the Marshalsea.
Little Dorrit finds him there, and a relationship develops between them that juxtaposes ambition
with humility, acquisitiveness with generosity, and regret despite good fortune held up against
optimism within dire circumstance.
Some of Dickens' most memorable comic characters appear in
Little Dorrit
, among them
Mrs. General, the highly correct governess-companion who advocates the words "Papa, potatoes,
prunes and prism" as giving "a pretty form to the lips."
Charles Dickens (1812 –1870) was born in Landport, Portsea, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors' prison and child labor and afforded him two years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life.
Earphones Awards recipient Robert Whitfield was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.
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