Little Dorrit

Name: Little Dorrit
Author: Dickens

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I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years.
If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman.

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PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITIONSample
CHAPTER 1. Sun and Shadow
CHAPTER 2 Fellow Travellers
CHAPTER 3. Home
CHAPTER 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream
CHAPTER 5. Family Affairs
CHAPTER 6. The Father of the Marshalsea
CHAPTER 7. The Child of the Marshalsea
CHAPTER 8. The Lock
CHAPTER 9. Little Mother
CHAPTER 10. Containing the whole Science of Government
Preface
CHAPTER 11. Let Loose
CHAPTER 12. Bleeding Heart Yard
CHAPTER 13. Patriarchal
CHAPTER 14. Little Dorrit’s Party
CHAPTER 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream
Preface
CHAPTER 16. Nobody’s Weakness
CHAPTER 17. Nobody’s Rival
CHAPTER 18. Little Dorrit’s Lover
CHAPTER 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
CHAPTER 20. Moving in Society
CHAPTER 21. Mr Merdle’s Complaint
CHAPTER 22. A Puzzle
CHAPTER 23. Machinery in Motion
CHAPTER 24. Fortune-Telling
CHAPTER 25. Conspirators and Others
CHAPTER 26. Nobody’s State of Mind
CHAPTER 27. Five-and-Twenty
CHAPTER 28. Nobody’s Disappearance
CHAPTER 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
CHAPTER 30. The Word of a Gentleman
Preface
CHAPTER 31. Spirit
CHAPTER 32. More Fortune-Telling
CHAPTER 33. Mrs Merdle’s Complaint
CHAPTER 34. A Shoal of Barnacles
CHAPTER 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand
CHAPTER 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travellers
CHAPTER 2. Mrs General
CHAPTER 3. On the Road
CHAPTER 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit
CHAPTER 5. Something Wrong Somewhere
CHAPTER 6. Something Right Somewhere
CHAPTER 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism
CHAPTER 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’
CHAPTER 9. Appearance and Disappearance
Preface
CHAPTER 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken
CHAPTER 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit
CHAPTER 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden
CHAPTER 13. The Progress of an Epidemic
Preface
CHAPTER 14. Taking Advice
CHAPTER 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons
CHAPTER 16. Getting on
CHAPTER 17. Missing
CHAPTER 18. A Castle in the Air
CHAPTER 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air
CHAPTER 20. Introduces the next
CHAPTER 21. The His tory of a Self-Tormentor
CHAPTER 22. Who passes by this Road so late?
CHAPTER 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise,
Preface
CHAPTER 24. The Evening of a Long Day
CHAPTER 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office
CHAPTER 26. Reaping the Whirlwind
CHAPTER 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea
CHAPTER 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea
CHAPTER 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea
CHAPTER 30. Closing in
Preface
CHAPTER 31. Closed
CHAPTER 32. Going
CHAPTER 33. Going!
CHAPTER 34. Gone