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Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit Mass market paperbound - 1985

by Charles Dickens; John Holloway (Editor)


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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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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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  • Title Little Dorrit
  • Author Charles Dickens; John Holloway (Editor)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 1
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
  • Date 1985
  • ISBN 9780140430257 / 0140430253
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.1 x 4.36 x 1.38 in (18.03 x 11.07 x 3.51 cm)
  • Reading level 1180
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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