Everyman's Library Classics: Little Dorrit: Introduction by Irving Howe (Hardcover)

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The story of Little Dorrit, born and brought up in a debtors' prison and her father, the hopeless debtor in question, who eventually inherits a fortune and is thus released. Their lives are entwine...

from atimco

Little Dorrit, published in 1855-1857, is often described as Dickens' creative re-imagining of his experiences at the Marshalsea Prison, where his father was imprisoned for debt in 1824 when Charle...

from DSeanW

Dickens functions in his books the way people wish God did in our world, always arranging every little event and chance encounter and directing them towards a neat and tidy moral finish where the g...

from Mercury57

Corruption; inept officialdom; capitalism, the pretensions of social class and status: few elements of Victorian life seem to escape Dickens' scrutiny in Little Dorrit. Published in monthly instalm...

from MickyFine

Recently returned to London after spending twenty years abroad working in China, Arthur Clennam finds himself taking an interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and her father, William Dorr...