Little Dorrit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781483703145)

Little Dorrit is work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where Dickens' own father had been imprisoned. Dickens' other critiques concern industry and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury; and the separation of people based on the lack of interaction between the classes. Little Dorrit begins in Marseilles "thirty years ago", with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his cell mate how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is returning to London to see his mother after the death of his father, with whom he had lived for twenty years in China. On his deathbed, his father had given him a mysterious watch murmuring "Your mother," which Arthur naturally assumed was intended for Mrs. Clennam, whom he and everyone else believed to be his mother.

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN-10: 1483703142
ISBN-13: 9781483703145
Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2013
Pages: 536
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.08d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.4
Point Value: 66
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 60660 / Little Dorrit