- Social life and customs, Children of prisoners, Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England), Fiction
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches.
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Classical in form, prestige, meticulous and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- First published
- November 2, 2006
- Pages
- 784
- Publisher
- Hazell Watson & Viney, Peter Haddock Publishing, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 305
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781976802904
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“THIRTY years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.”
Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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