Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
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Author: Charles DickensBrand: PBS
Editor: Helen Small
Editor: Stephen Wall
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-03
ISBN: 0143115871
Number of pages: 928
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of Little Dorrit
Book Review: Little Dorrit, Big Book
Summary: 5 Stars
After watching the Masterpiece Classic series on PBS, I had some questions about some of the plot points and so decided to go straight to the source. I hadn't read a Dickens novel this thick before, but thoroughly enjoyed this one which came in at 924 pages including notes. The notes were quite helpful as to places, events, and literary allusions employed by Dickens in telling this very timely story of financial hardship and collapse and redemption. While reading, I could almost substitute the names of current scam artists like Bernie Madoff for Merdle in the novel. Greed and the financial bubbles caused by it have always been with us. The central story of Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam both together and apart is so well developed, you feel you've left old friends when the novel ends. Truly a wonderful novel if you stick it out.
Summary of Little Dorrit
Coming to PBS in March 2009-a MasterpieceTM Classic production of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens 's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is a supreme work of Dickens's maturity.
Charles Dickens 's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is a supreme work of Dickens's maturity.
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