Little Dorrit

By Dickens, Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0000633822
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Little Dorrit
Author:	Dickens, Charles
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Dickens, B. C. (n.d.). Little Dorrit. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Preface: I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. 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, without presuming to mention the unimportant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that extravagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad?share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and of one or two other equally laudable enterprises.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Little Dorrit, 1 -- Little Dorrit -- I