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Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Start date: September 1, 2018

Finish date: September 30, 2018

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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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Mar 29, 2009 Danielle The Book Huntress marked it as to-read

Philistine that I am, I developed an interest in reading this book because of watching the movie on Masterpiece Theater with Matthew MacFadyen.

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Jun 05, 2022 Namida... rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook

I just finished the mini series and I loooove this book now, I'll leave the review below for naive first impressions but I don't know her

Things I liked:
- The amazing descriptions of the circumlocution office which almost feel like an antagonistic stand-alone character
- The incredible chapter "The progress of an epidemic" describing how word of mouth spreads about Mr Merdle's riches, chilling in relation to modern day worshipping of rich people. Also the chapter of the death of Mr Merdle and th ...more

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