Little Dorrit.
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The first edition in book form after the usual parts issue. The plates are always foxed of toned to a greater or lesser degree. Those in the present example are about average.
Synopsis
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a 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 & mdash ; in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106394
- Title
- Little Dorrit.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Bradbury & Evans, 1857.
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