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Little Dorrit ****

Amy Dorrit's (Claire Foy) gentle spirit has never been dampened by the confining walls of the Marshalsea Prison she's lived in her whole life. Despite the dark shadow of debtor's prison, Amy lovingly cares for her father William Dorrit (Tom Courtenay), the longest serving inmate. A possibly redemptive light unexpectedly shines in the form of Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen), who has been left with the intriguing threads of a mystery after his father's death -- threads that will intertwine his family and fate with the Dorrits. Clennam's exhaustive search for answers involves murder, fortunes gained and lost, the upper echelons and lowest dregs of society, and most surprising of all, a tender romance. Adapted by Andrew Davies (Bleak House, Pride and Prejudice), Little Dorrit, based on the book by Charles Dickens, is a sprawling story as timely as it is moving. - Publisher.

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  • "Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit"

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  • ""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 prison. Arthur's attempts to help the Dorrits reveal how the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls, affecting the lives of many - from the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, Mr. Pancks, the garrulous and lovelorn Flora Finching, Merdle, an unscrupulous financier - to the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. Just as Arthur discovers that it is possible to climb to the very top in London society, so he comes to realise it is equally possible to slip down again. Could the only chance of escape lie in unravelling the mystery of Arthur's own family's murky past? And if he does where will it leave him, Amy and her father?"--Container."
  • "Amy Dorrit's (Claire Foy) gentle spirit has never been dampened by the confining walls of the Marshalsea Prison she's lived in her whole life. Despite the dark shadow of debtor's prison, Amy lovingly cares for her father William Dorrit (Tom Courtenay), the longest serving inmate. A possibly redemptive light unexpectedly shines in the form of Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen), who has been left with the intriguing threads of a mystery after his father's death -- threads that will intertwine his family and fate with the Dorrits. Clennam's exhaustive search for answers involves murder, fortunes gained and lost, the upper echelons and lowest dregs of society, and most surprising of all, a tender romance. Adapted by Andrew Davies (Bleak House, Pride and Prejudice), Little Dorrit, based on the book by Charles Dickens, is a sprawling story as timely as it is moving. - Publisher."@en
  • "Andrew Davies's adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale of hardship and struggle in 1820s London. The Dorrit family has spent years in a debtors' prison due to the financial mess in which father William (Tom Courtenay) managed to land himself as a youth. Youngest daughter Amy (Claire Foy), known as Little Dorrit, finds work with the wealthy Mrs Clenham (Judy Parfitt) but knows that her father will, in all probability, spend the remainder of his life in gaol. However, when Arthur Clenham (Matthew Macfadyen), recently returned from abroad, comes to suspect that his late father was in part responsible for the Dorrits' plight, he becomes determined to make amends. But as he continues to delve into the mysteries of the Dorrits' and his parents' shared past, he is unaware that his own mother's house has been placed in peril by the arrival of a sinister stranger."
  • "Amy Dorrit has spent her young life with her family in London's debtor prison. Arthur Clennam, a kindly but ineffectual gentleman, who returns to England from China after twenty years, risks everything to help little Dorrits's family."@en
  • "When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England."
  • "When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England."@en
  • "Disc 1: "This gripping new series by Andrew Davies brings to life Dickens's powerful story of struggle and hardship in 1820s London. When Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen) returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstress, Amy Dorrit (Claire Foy). The cold and forbidding Mrs Clennam (Judy Paritt) isn't usually given to charity, so why has she made an exception in taking on Amy? Is she making reparations for a past wrongdoing? Arthur's quest to discover the truth takes him to the Marshalsea Prison for Debt. Here he meets and befriends Amy's father, William Dorrit (Tom Courtenay), the prison's longest serving inmate. As he tries to help the Dorrits, Arthur discovers that the dark shadow of debt stretches far beyond the walls of the Marshalsea Prison, to affect the lives of many. Just as it is possible to climb to the very top in London society's intricate game of snakes and ladders, so it is possible to slip right down. But if the daring and adventurous Arthur succeeds in unravelling the mystery of his family's past, where will it leave him in the scheme of things? And where will it leave the Dorrits? ""
  • "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 prison. Arthur's attempts to help the Dorrits reveal how the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls, affecting the lives of many - from the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Yard, Mr Pancks, the garrulous and lovelorn Flora Finching, Merdle, an unscrupulous financier - to the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. Just as Arthur discovers that it is possible to climb to the very top in London society, so he comes to realise it is equally possible to slip down again. Could the only chance of escape lie in unravelling the mystery of Arthur's own family's murky past? And if he does where will it leave him, Amy and her father?"
  • "When Arthur Clennam returns to England after years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstres, Amy Dorritt."@en
  • "When Arthur Clennam returns to England after years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstres, Amy Dorritt."
  • ""One of Charles Dickens' greatest love stories also has the timely theme of chronic debt and financial collapse."--Container."@en
  • "The story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long-term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London."@en

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