Little Dorrit

Preface to the 1857 Edition

BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY

1. Sun and Shadow | 2. Fellow Travellers | 3. Home | 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream | 5. Family Affairs | 6. The Father of the Marshalsea | 7. The Child of the Marshalsea | 8. The Lock | 9. little Mother | 10. Containing the whole Science of Government

11. Let Loose | 12. Bleeding Heart Yard | 13. Patriarchal | 14. Little Dorrit's Party | 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream | 16. Nobody's Weakness | 17. Nobody's Rival | 18. Little Dorrit's Lover | 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations | 20. Moving in Society

21. Mr Merdle's Complaint | 22. A Puzzle | 23. Machinery in Motion | 24. Fortune-Telling | 25. Conspirators and Others | 26. Nobody's State of Mind | 27. Five-and-Twenty | 28. Nobody's Disappearance | 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming | 30. The Word of a Gentleman

31. Spirit | 32. More Fortune-Telling | 33. Mrs Merdle's Complaint | 34. A Shoal of Barnacles | 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit's Hand | 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan

BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES

1. Fellow Travellers | 2. Mrs General | 3. On the Road | 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit | 5. Something Wrong Somewhere | 6. Something Right Somewhere | 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism | 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that 'It Never Does' | 9. Appearance and Disappearance | 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken

11. A Letter from Little Dorrit | 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden | 13. The Progress of an Epidemic | 14. Taking Advice | 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together | 16. Getting on | 17. Missing | 18. A Castle in the Air | 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air | 20. Introduces the next

21. The History of a Self-Tormentor | 22. Who Passes by this Road so late? | 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams | 24. The Evening of a Long Day | 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office | 26. Reaping the Whirlwind | 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea | 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea | 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea | 30. Closing in

31. Closed | 32. Going | 33. Going! | 34. Gone