Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore, and Adam Leverton
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Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens's other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.
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Social life and customs, Children of prisoners, Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England), Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Social conditions, Inheritance and succession, Imprisonment for Debt, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, Girls, fiction, London (england), fiction, England, fiction, English literature, London (England), Prisons, Fiction, romance, general, Fathers and daughters, fiction, English language, Fiction, city life, Fiction, classics, Fiction, general, Juvenile fiction, Manners and customs, London (England) -- Fiction, Inheritance and succession -- Fiction, Love stories, Domestic fiction, Fathers and daughters -- Fiction, Children of prisoners -- Fiction, Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England) -- Fiction, Debt, Imprisonment for -- Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Long Now Manual for CivilizationPlaces
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Little Dorrit
1873, Published by Hurd and Houghton, The Riverside Press
in English
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