false 31250 131 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, <I>Little Dorrit</I> is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. 80851 book 1857 Little Dorrit total:1388|5:433|4:531|3:321|2:77|1:22| 1388 5446 2644 199 5 9 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jul 20 06:47:44 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 07:09:01 -0700 2007
It has been clinically proven that those who find Dickens too maudlin or sentimental are either emotionally stunted or ful...more...]]> 4 5 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 12 13:06:07 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 13:09:38 -0700 2008 A Handful of Dust, of the characters ends up trapped in a jungle by a madman who forces the character to read Little Dorrit aloud — I figured this was clearly meant to be a fate worse than ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 09:50:23 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 07:26:08 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 19 05:47:28 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 09:10:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 22:41:19 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 21:03:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 02 19:18:08 -0800 2008 Sat May 02 10:51:46 -0700 2009 1820's rags-to-riches tale, Dickens style

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...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Jul 25 12:57:46 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 13:07:31 -0700 2008
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Although it's customary to write about Dickens' anger towards the debtors' prisons, I've always found ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Feb 09 21:58:08 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 21:58:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 20:18:53 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 20:26:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 20:55:49 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 06:54:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 31 07:54:30 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 09:38:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:07:16 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 23:13:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 14:11:05 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 19:54:56 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 21:34:43 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 17:12:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 12:34:05 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 19:20:55 -0700 2009 I really liked it, but was surprised to find several flaws. I guess Dickens was human, after all! Apparently this is considered one of his darker and less successful novel...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jul 02 22:35:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 15:50:53 -0700 2009 Little Dorrit 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...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 10:48:43 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 07:48:58 -0700 2009 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...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 14:53:07 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 16:17:48 -0700 2009
Little Dorrit takes place in London in the late 19th century. Her father was in debt, and at that time if...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6401071