Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit (Audiobook Extract) read by Anton Lesser by Penguin Books UK published on 2012-01-09T15:03:36Z An extract from the audiobook edition of Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens' masterful depiction of prison-life. Read by Anton Lesser. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. These remastered Dickens will be available to download in February from Audible.co.uk and iTunes UK. Genre Audiobook