Little Dorrit
- Paperback
912 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2002
Summary
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.
In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes derive- his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375759147 |
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| ISBN-10: | 037575914X |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, David Gates, H.K. Browne |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 697g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 130mm x 49mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“One of the most significant works of the nineteenth century.”-Lionel Trilling
“One of the most significant works of the nineteenth century.”—Lionel Trilling
About The Author
Charles Dickens
David Gates is the author of the novels Jernigan and Preston Falls and a collection of short stories, The Wonders of the Invisible World. He writes for Newsweek and teaches at the New School for Social Research and Hunter College. He lives in Brooklyn and in Washington County, New York.
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