Little Dorrit in Never too Late to Read Classics

Jul 26, 2011 Melissa (ladybug) rated it really liked it

Shelves: yearly-challenge, 4stars, gilmore-girls

I hadn't known that Charles Dickens' father had been imprisoned in the Marshalsea, at one time, when Dickens was a child. While reading this book is when I found out. This made the book much more realistic and interesting for me. Dickens was writing what he knew. This is what distinguishes between just a good book and a classic (which I can say this is a classic).

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When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interes

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Nov 16, 2021 Laura (Reading is a Doing Word) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021-read, classics-trad-and-modern, dickens

Little Dorrit (Book 54) - Review
This is the 11th book in my #ayearofdickens2021 challenge.

Little Dorrit was a slow burner for me. It took me a while to become engaged in the characters and it wasn’t until the second half of the book that the mystery and intrigue hinted at in the first half, really came to fruition and captured my attention.

This is perhaps a slightly darker and more pessimistic book than some of the preceding ones. Dickens criticises aspects of government, class and society and n ...more

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Sep 18, 2020 Zuly rated it really liked it

This experience of reading Dickens has made me aware of the apparatus of construction, with its many subplots and characters, as influenced by its intention to be serialized in magazine form. There's a bulk here that could be whittled down to a smoother read. By the middle 300 pages, characters and background and experiences are all coming up at once without the reader knowing to what end. By the last couple of hundred pages, the story is moving along. All in all, reading it was arduous.

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