One of Charles Dickens' most personally resonant novels, "Little Dorrit" speaks across the centuries to the modern reader. Its depiction of shady financiers and banking collapses seems uncannily topical, as does Dickens' compassionate admiration for Amy Dorrit, the 'child of the Marshalsea', as she struggles to hold her family together in the face of neglect, irresponsibility, and ruin. Intricate in its plotting, the novel also satirises the cumbersome machinery of government. For Dickens, "Little Dorrit" marked a return to some of the most harrowing scenes of his childhood, with its graphic depiction of the trauma of the debtors' prison and its portrait of a world ignored by society. The novel not only explores the literal prison, but also the figurative jails that characters build for themselves.
- ISBN10 1435116429
- ISBN13 9781435116429
- Publish Date 16 February 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Barnes & Noble Inc
- Edition Customer-Specific
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 880
- Language English