Little Dorrit
About this book
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.
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- children of prisoners
- children of prisoners -- fiction
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- debt, imprisonment for -- fiction
- domestic fiction
- england, fiction
- english language
- english literature
- fathers and daughters
- fathers and daughters -- fiction
- fathers and daughters, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, city life
- fiction, classics
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, romance, general
- girls, fiction
- imprisonment for debt
- inheritance and succession
- inheritance and succession -- fiction
- juvenile fiction
- literature
- london (england)
- london (england) -- fiction
- london (england), fiction
- long now manual for civilization
- love stories
- manners and customs
- marshalsea prison (southwark, london, england)
- marshalsea prison (southwark, london, england) -- fiction
- prisons
- social conditions
- social life and customs