Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens

Publishers:

Robert P. Gwinn; Encyclopedia Britannica

, 1990

Overview

The makers of Encyclopaedia Britannica bring you one of the Great Books of the Western World. This text captures major ideas, stories, and discoveries that helped shape Western culture.

Contents

Top Highlights

“the national razor in its case—the guillotine locked up.” (Page 3)

“When you think of me at all, John, let it only be as the child you have seen grow up in the prison with one set of duties always occupying her; as a weak, retired, contented, unprotected girl. I particularly want you to remember, that when I come outside the gate, I am unprotected and solitary.’” (Page 111)

“‘An enfeebled old man, this; but he is my brother, sir, my brother, and the voice of Nature is potent!’” (Page 113)

“He was jocular, too, as to the heeling of his shoes; but became grave on the subject of his cravat, and promised her that, when she could afford it, she should buy him a new one.” (Page 117)

“‘Why not upon me too!’ thought Little Dorrit, with the door yet in her hand. ‘It was not unreasonable in Fanny.’” (Page 125)

Product Details

• Title: Little Dorrit
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: Great Books of the Western World
• Volume: 47
• Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
• Print Publication Date: 1990
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Children of prisoners › Fiction; English fiction; Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England) › Fiction; London (England) › Fiction
• ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
• Resource ID: LLS:GBWW47
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:42Z

About Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) is the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Dickens exploded onto the literary scene with The Pickwick Papers, and quickly became the most popular novelist of his time. He has created some of the most memorable characters in literature, and his moving stories remain immensely popular today. Dickens wrote 15 novels, five novellas, and hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles. His works offered humorous characters and profound social commentaries, and Dickens actively advocated for children’s rights and social reform. Bleak House was particularly effective in stirring social change, eventually leading to a reform of the judicial system it criticized. Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities is the best-selling novel of all time. His works have never gone out of print and have been reproduced in numerous adaptations.