Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Dickens, Charles

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1483703142
ISBN13: 9781483703145
Publisher: Bottom Of The Hill Pub
Published: Sep 1 2013
Pages: 536
Weight: 2.01
Height: 1.08 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Little Dorrit is work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where Dickens' own father had been imprisoned. Dickens' other critiques concern industry and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury; and the separation of people based on the lack of interaction between the classes. Little Dorrit begins in Marseilles thirty years ago, with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his cell mate how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is returning to London to see his mother after the death of his father, with whom he had lived for twenty years in China. On his deathbed, his father had given him a mysterious watch murmuring Your mother, which Arthur naturally assumed was intended for Mrs. Clennam, whom he and everyone else believed to be his mother.

29 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Fiction

View All