Little Dorrit | Little Dorrit

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Author: Charles Dickens
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
Setting: England
Genres: Long fiction, Sensation novel
Subjects: Prisoners, Prisons, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Inheritance or succession, Greed, Moral conditions, Bankruptcy or financial crisis, London, Wealth, Debtors or creditors, Finance
Locales: London, England

William Dorrit, a quiet, shy, self- contained man so long imprisoned for debt that he has become known to all as the “Father of the Marshalsea.” Never able to understand the complexity of business details that reduced him to bankruptcy, he accepts his fate and “testimonials,” as he calls small gifts of money given him by visitors to the prison, with the same equanimity. His wife and two children had joined him in prison, where a third child, their daughter Amy, had been born; and Mrs. Dorrit had died there. Over the Dorrit family hangs the shadow of...

Little Dorrit | Little Dorrit

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