Little Dorrit
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. The novel is divided into two parts, Poverty (issues I-X) and Riches (issues XI-XX).
Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.
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Direct links to each issue of this title:
Book the First: Poverty
- No. I -- Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4
- No. II -- Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8
- No. III -- Chapters 9, 10 and 11
- No. IV -- Chapters 12, 13 and 14
- No. V -- Chapters 15, 16, 17 and 18
- No. VI -- Chapters 19, 20, 21 and 22
- No. VII -- Chapters 23, 24 and 25
- No. VIII -- Chapters 26, 27, 28 and 29
- No. IX -- Chapters 30, 31 and 32
- No. X -- Chapters 33, 34, 35 and 36
Book the Second: Riches
- No. XI -- Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4
- No. XII -- Chapters 5, 6, and 7
- No. XIII -- Chapters 8, 9 ,10 and 11
- No. XIV -- Chapters 12, 13 and 14
- No. XV -- Chapters 15, 16, 17 and 18
- No. XVI -- Chapters 19, 20, 21 and 22
- No. XVII -- Chapters 23, 24, 25 and 26
- No. XVIII -- Chapters 27, 28 and 29
- No. XIX-XX -- Chapters 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34