Little Dorrit Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

    • 4.5 • 219 Ratings

Publisher Description

In his eleventh novel, illustrated by Phiz and published by Bradbury and Evans, Dickens' childhood memories of his father's imprisonment in the Marshalsea for debt are brought forth again as the centerpiece of the story of William Dorrit, whose family is also imprisoned there.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1934
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
1,372
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
820.9
KB

Customer Reviews

Dickens on Commerce and Love ,

Little Dorrit

Funny, moving, and, at times, very dark.

Rare To Share ,

2300 (virtual) pages of effort

I chose this book because of the Masterpiece Theater production that I missed. I haven't read any Dickens for a long time, so am not sure how I would currently perceive his writing, but I found this book quite hard to read and the story line often hard to follow. I was grateful for the online ability to check definitions of words as many were totally unfamiliar to me, and I think I have a pretty good vocabulary.
I also found him being excessive in points he was making, going on for paragraph after paragraph about social ills, especially in terms of government officials and attitude, essentially just repeating the same information over and over again. (Dare I say over, and over, and over, and over and over...)
And, disappointingly, he left a major mystery of the story totally unexplained. Oh well!
I wish I would have seen the show. I'm sure it was much more entertaining.

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