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Laura
Dec 17, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: victorians, read-2016, british-literature, fiction-19th-century, audio-books, 1000-guardian, e-books, gutenberg, hf-19th-century-europe
From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Arthur Clennam befriends seamstress Amy Dorrit and meets her extraordinary family at a debtor's prison. Dickens adaptation stars Ian McKellen.

2/5: Arthur Clannam worries about his parents, but thinks he's found a new love. Amy receives a proposal.

3/5: Surprising discoveries about the Dorrits are revealed, but Arthur is yet to solve his family's secret.

4/5: The newly wealthy Dorrits set off on a tour of Europe, but Amy is feeling homesick.

5/5: Arthur is struck by disaster, ...more
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Margret Melissa (ladybug)
Jul 26, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: gilmore-girls, yearly-challenge, 4stars
I hadn't known that Charles Dickens' father had been imprisoned in the Marshalsea, at one time, when Dickens was a child. While reading this book is when I found out. This made the book much more realistic and interesting for me. Dickens was writing what he knew. This is what distinguishes between just a good book and a classic (which I can say this is a classic).

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When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interes
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Stacey Matson
Mar 31, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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