Little Dorrit

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 ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance."

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the 1857 edition.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 03/12/2002
Pages: 912
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.26w x 1.28d
ISBN13: 9780375759147
ISBN10: 037575914X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics

About the Author
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.