A Victorian tale of debt imprisonment and social critique, following the Dorrit family's rise from poverty and Arthur Clennam's search for purpose and love.
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A Victorian tale of debt imprisonment and social critique, following the Dorrit family's rise from poverty and Arthur Clennam's search for purpose and love.
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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 entertai...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Chaste Victorian courtship and marriage; no explicit content
Violence & gore
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Implied murder backstory; mild peril and harsh conditions
Profanity
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No profanity present
Substance use
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Social drinking typical of Victorian settings
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation present
Religious content
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Harsh Calvinist piety; recurring moral and religious themes
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central satire of bureaucracy, debtors’ prisons, and class injustice
Self-harm / suicide
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On-page suicide of a financier after fraud is exposed
Abuse & suffering
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Debtors’ prison life, poverty, emotional cruelty, systemic suffering
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