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Little Dorrit

Introduction by Irving Howe

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by H. K. Browne
Introduction by David Gates

By Charles Dickens
Illustrated by H. K. Browne
Introduction by David Gates

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Irving Howe

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Irving Howe

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

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Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

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Mar 12, 2002 | ISBN 9780375759147

Hardcover $32.00

Dec 15, 1992 | ISBN 9780679417255

Ebook $3.99

Mar 12, 2002 | ISBN 9781588362230

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    About Little Dorrit

    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.”

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857 edition.

    About Little Dorrit

    Amy Dorrit’s father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. Clennam. But Amy’s fortunes are about to change: the arrival of Mrs. Clennam’s son Arthur, back from working in China, heralds the beginning of stunning revelations not just about Amy but also about Arthur himself.

    Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning example of how thoroughly Dickens could put his flair for the theatrical and his comic genius the service of his passion for justice.

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    About Little Dorrit

    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.”

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857 edition.

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    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $13.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Mar 12, 2002 | 912 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375759147

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $32.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Dec 15, 1992 | 896 Pages | ISBN 9780679417255

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Mar 12, 2002 | 896 Pages | ISBN 9781588362230

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