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 Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens's ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's... 
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 The Washington Post `Little Dorrit': Double Dose of Dickens
02/17/1989: 641 words, approx. 2 pages Saying that "Little Dorrit, Part 2" is better than "Little Dorrit, Part 1" is like saying a toothache is better than a migraine. This six-hour, two-part adaptation of the Dickens melodrama is not a movie, it's an endurance test. With its plodding pace and... summary from source:
The Boston Globe 'little Dorrit' A Pungent Spill Of Characters
07/14/1989: 638 words, approx. 2 pages LITTLE DORRIT -- Directed and adapted from Charles Dickens' novel by Christine Edzard. Starring Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Roshan Seth, Cyril Cusack, Sarah Pickering, Max Wall, Miriam Margolyes, Eleanor Bron, Michael Elphick. At the Somerville Theater. (This... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Resurrected by the Wrath of Liz Smith
2/25/2007: 905 words, approx. 3 pagesIn New York, the way we live now, to relinquish or be denied one’s boldface identity, whether in the form of a column mention or a byline, is to incur invisibility or social death (which amount to the same thing). I discovered this when I...
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mark M. Hennelly
14,160 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following essay, Hennelly claims that games and play in Little Dorrit are not redemptive as they tend to be in Dickens's other works, suggesting that this is in keeping with the generally dark tone of the entire novel.
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Critical Essay by Sylvia Manning
9,461 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Manning examines the way Dickens undermines the narrator in Little Dorrit and the ideological contradictions that this causes.
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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens | |
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About 478 pages (143,243 words) in 19 products |
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