Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. It satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts.
Latest episodes of the podcast Little Dorrit
- 00 – Book 1, 1857 Edition Preface
- 01 – Book 1, Chapter 1 – Sun and Shadow
- 02 – Book 1, Chapter 2 – Fellow Travellers
- 03 – Book 1, Chapter 3 – Home
- 04 – Book 1, Chapter 4 – Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream
- 05 – Book 1, Chapter 5 – Family Affairs
- 06 – Book 1, Chapter 6 – The Father of the Marshalsea
- 07 – Book 1, Chapter 7 – The Child of the Marshalsea
- 08 – Book 1, Chapter 8 – The Lock
- 09 – Book 1, Chapter 9 – Little Mother
- 10 – Book 1, Chapter 10 – Containing the Whole Science of Government
- 11 – Book 1, Chapter 11 – Let Loose
- 12 – Book 1, Chapter 12 – Bleeding Heart Yard
- 13 – Book 1, Chapter 13 – Patriarchal
- 14 – Book 1, Chapter 14 – Little Dorrit’s Party
- 15 – Book 1, Chapter 15 – Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream
- 16 – Book 1, Chapter 16 – Nobody’s Weakness
- 17 – Book 1, Chapter 17 – Nobody’s Rival
- 18 – Book 1, Chapter 18 – Little Dorrit’s Lover
- 19 – Book 1, Chapter 19 – The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations
- 20 – Book 1, Chapter 20 – Moving in Society
- 21 – Book 1, Chapter 21 – Mr Merdle’s Complaint
- 22 – Book 1, Chapter 22 – A Puzzle
- 23 – Book 1, Chapter 23 – Machinery in Motion
- 24 – Book 1, Chapter 24 – Fortune-Telling
- 25 – Book 1, Chapter 25 – Conspirators and Others
- 26 – Book 1, Chapter 26 – Nobody’s State of Mind
- 27 – Book 1, Chapter 27 – Five-and-Twenty
- 28 – Book 1, Chapter 28 – Nobody’s Disappearance
- 29 – Book 1, Chapter 29 – Mrs Flintwinch Goes On Dreaming
- 30 – Book 1, Chapter 30 – The Word of a Gentleman
- 31 – Book 1, Chapter 31 – Spirit
- 32 – Book 1, Chapter 32 – More Fortune-Telling
- 33 – Book 1, Chapter 33 – Mrs Merdle’s Complaint
- 34 – Book 1, Chapter 34 – A Shoal of Barnacles
- 35 – Book 1, Chapter 35 – What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand
- 36 – Book 1, Chapter 36 – The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan
- 37 – Book 2, Chapter 1 – Fellow Travellers
- 38 – Book 2, Chapter 2 – Mrs General
- 39 – Book 2, Chapter 3 – On the Road
- 40 – Book 2, Chapter 4 – A Letter from Little Dorrit
- 41 – Book 2, Chapter 5 – Something Wrong Somewhere
- 42 – Book 2, Chapter 6 – Something Right Somewhere
- 43 – Book 2, Chapter 7 – Mostly, Prunes and Prism
- 44 – Book 2, Chapter 8 – The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’
- 45 – Book 2, Chapter 9 – Appearance and Disappearance
- 46 – Book 2, Chapter 10 – The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken
- 47 – Book 2, Chapter 11 – A Letter from Little Dorrit
- 48 – Book 2, Chapter 12 – In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden
- 49 – Book 2, Chapter 13 – The Progress of an Epidemic
- 50 – Book 2, Chapter 14 – Taking Advice
- 51 – Book 2, Chapter 15 – No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together
- 52 – Book 2, Chapter 16 – Getting on
- 53 – Book 2, Chapter 17 – Missing
- 54 – Book 2, Chapter 18 – A Castle in the Air
- 55 – Book 2, Chapter 19 – The Storming of the Castle in the Air
- 56 – Book 2, Chapter 20 – Introduces the next
- 57 – Book 2, Chapter 21 – The History of a Self-Tormentor
- 58 – Book 2, Chapter 22 – Who passes by this Road so late?
- 59 – Book 2, Chapter 23 – Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams
- 60 – Book 2, Chapter 24 – The Evening of a Long Day
- 61 – Book 2, Chapter 25 – The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office
- 62 – Book 2, Chapter 26 – Reaping the Whirlwind
- 63 – Book 2, Chapter 27 – The Pupil of the Marshalsea
- 64 – Book 2, Chapter 28 – An Appearance in the Marshalsea
- 65 – Book 2, Chapter 29 – A Plea in the Marshalsea
- 66 – Book 2, Chapter 30: Closing In, Part 1
- 67 – Book 2, Chapter 30: Closing In, Part 2
- 68 – Book 2, Chapter 31 – Closed
- 69 – Book 2, Chapter 32 – Going
- 70 – Book 2, Chapter 33 – Going!
- 71 – Book 2, Chapter 34 – Gone