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    <![CDATA[  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, <em>Little Dorrit</em> is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[How I loved this book. Dickens is amazing, although, I admit, he is incredibly verbose in this book! But the thing is, I ENJOYED every minute of the verbosity! His sentences are just crammed with meaning. Every paragraph is a sermon on human behavior. He paints each character as a particular human t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51778798">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham     Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor s prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circumlocution Office. The novel s range of characters - the honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying - offers a portrait of society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>1820's rags-to-riches tale, Dickens style</strong><br/><br/>Where most books develop one puzzle piece at a time, Dickens' novels are comprised of large pieces that are gradually deconstructed into tiny individual parts, scattered with wild abandon, and then slowly reconstructed methodically until the final...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36793910">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, <em>Little Dorrit</em> is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was reading a book of conversations with the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and in it he actually said that Dickens was a hack writer, and I think back in the 20's or 30's when these conversations took place that might've been the consensus opinion. <br/><br/>But what malarkey! <br/>What ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28285015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, <em>Little Dorrit</em> is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.]]>
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    <![CDATA[  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, <em>Little Dorrit</em> is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dickens' most challenging and troubling book.  Interesting to re-read it while Wall Street is falling apart for some of the same reasons: vastly over-leveraged capital and Ponzi schemes.<br/><br/>Although it's customary to write about Dickens' anger towards the debtors' prisons, I've always found ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40877290">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This BBC Radio 4 dramatization starring Sir Ian McKellen recreates the author's mid-19th-Century London. Drawing upon his own father's imprisonment in Marshalsea Debtors' Prison, Dickens placed the institution firmly in the heart of the novel when telling the story of Amy Dorrit. The youngest child of debtor William Dorrit, Amy is born in the Marshalsea prison. She and her father are befriended by Arthur Clennam, whose mother employs &quot;little Dorrit&quot; as a seamstress. The fortunes of the Dorrits undergo an extreme change when Williams inherits a fortune, and the family move to Italy. Back in England, Arthur Clennam finds himself the victim of a massive fraud and ends up in Marshalsea. There he is found by Little Dorrit, whose fortune has had no effect on her generosity and humility. Arthur realizes that she loves him, but it is not until the Dorrit fortune is lost that the two of them can be united at last. Peopled with Dickens' usual host of memorable characters, this mix of satire and genuine sentiment has made this one of his best-loved works.  ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it was far from Dickens' finest. In fact, it is one of my least favorite of his. The plot is vague, at best, and by story's end, I had many questions left unanswered. It was incredibly frustrating to not be able to really understand what was going on. For instance, what exactly happened to Art...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54199379">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Reality proposes, but Dickens metamorphoses...to create not so much a veritable picture of life as a living alternative to it&quot;, Stephen Wall writes in the Introduction to this brand-new edition of Little Dorrit. The novel is set in Marshalsea, the debtors' prison where Amy Dorrit, the title character, has spent her entire life caring for her imprisoned father (and where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned). Amy's devotion to her father and her love for Arthur Clennam, a young man who eventually helps secure her father's release from prison, form a small center of light in an otherwise dark portrayal of both the physical and psychological horrors of imprisonment and the hypocrisy of a society that allows them to continue. Although Dickens railed against society's inequities in earlier books, his social criticism here is more radical and his comedy, harsher and more pointed.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Highly regarded today as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Little Dorrit  presents both a scathing indictment of mid-Victorian England and a devastating insight into the human condition. Examining the many social and mental prisons which incarcerate men and women, the novel also considers the nature of true spiritual freedom.  Against a background of administrative and financial scandal, Dickens tells the moving story of the old Marshalsea prisoner who inherits a fortune and his devoted daughter's love for a man who believes he has done with love.  He draws widely on the events of his own life and times, yet focuses a powerful imaginative vision which is as universal as it is specific, immediate, and intense.  In Little Dorrit  Dickens displays his characteristic mastery of irony and pathos, of satire and comedy, and the novel exemplifies his most mature, ambitious, and effective writing. This edition, which has the definitive Clarendon text, also includes Dickens's working notes and eight of the original illustrations from the first edition by 'Phiz'.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dickens characters are always so fantastic and fun. His villians are the absolute most aweful, frigtening, irredemable figures one's imagination could create. His heros and Heroines are admirable, strong and endearing. His work is so colorful because of them, and they just sort of leap off the page ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76291456">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, <em>Little Dorrit</em> is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[What surprised me about this book that Charles Dickens – long before Alan Greenspan spoke of “irrational exuberance” or John Maynard Keynes discussed “animal spirits” – gives a psychologically insightful description of a speculative financial boom and bust.  His description of the unfort...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61002174">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[1. I bought Little Dorrit almost a decade ago. I remembered I just read Oliver Twist and when I went to the bookstore I just lunged for the thickest Dickens book on the shelf. How effing stupid was that? I had tried to read this twice before. Always gave up before the hundredth page. I don't really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61541267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother’s seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy’s father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr. Pancks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, <em>Little Dorrit</em> is one of the supreme works of Dickens’s maturity.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in order to try to fill in what was unclear to me from the recent Masterpiece Classic with Clair Foy as Little Dorrit, and because I wanted even more detail on the Merdle bits. It turns out that the parts I didn't understand in the TV show were due to the fact that the main plot contriva...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55756248">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dickens' <em>Little Dorrit</em> is arguably one of the very best books I've read in my entire life.  I would unhesitatingly recommend this book to anyone.  It was captivating, engaging, and at times humorous, and at other times sad; with romance, mystery, and intrigue.  Dickens' plotting is amazing, his char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61989141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally finished. This is a marathon, probably best experienced in steps, like the original serial. What an opening! <blockquote>A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Every thing in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had sta...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69817157">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just absolutely loved this book.  Dickens is so fabulous that it is hard to read another book.  Along with Shakespeare, they are the greatest writers of all time.  No one compares.<br/><br/>Little Dorrit takes place in London in the late 19th century.  Her father was in debt, and at that time if...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66992259">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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