Little Dorrit

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Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens that critiques Victorian society and the debtors' prison system through the life of its impoverished heroine, Amy Dorrit.

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Little Dorrit (1934 film)
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alsoKnownAs Little Dorrit; A Novel
author Charles Dickens
character Flora Finching
Mr. Merdle
Mrs. Clennam
Pancks
Rigaud
William Dorrit
completionDate 1857
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
critiquesInstitution Victorian bureaucracy
debtors' prison system
firstPublicationDate 1855
followedBy A Tale of Two Cities
genre Victorian novel
satirical novel
social novel
hasIllustrator Hablot Knight Browne
hasISBN 9780141439969
hasPart Poverty
The Riches
surface form: Riches
literaryForm prose
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
mainCharacter Amy Dorrit
Arthur Clennam
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
originalSerializationMedium periodical
originalSerialPublication Household Words
placeInAuthorOeuvre later work of Charles Dickens
precededBy Hard Times
protagonist Amy Dorrit
publisher Bradbury and Evans
setting London, England
surface form: London

Marshalsea debtors' prison
settingPeriod 19th century
theme bureaucracy and government inefficiency
class and social mobility
critique of Victorian society
debt and imprisonment
economic speculation
family responsibility

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Charles Dickens notableWork Little Dorrit
Masterpiece hasNotableAdaptation Little Dorrit
Tom Courtenay notableWork Little Dorrit
Matthew Macfadyen notableWork Little Dorrit
Alec Guinness notableWork Little Dorrit
Claire Foy notableWork Little Dorrit
Hard Times followedBy Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit adaptedAs Little Dorrit self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Little Dorrit (1987 film)
Little Dorrit adaptedAs Little Dorrit self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Little Dorrit (2008 TV series)
Little Dorrit adaptedAs Little Dorrit self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Little Dorrit (1920 film)
Little Dorrit adaptedAs Little Dorrit self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Little Dorrit (1924 film)
Thomas notableWork Little Dorrit
subject surface form: Tom Courtenay
Thomas Daniel Courtenay notableWork Little Dorrit
John Lunn notableWork Little Dorrit
this entity surface form: Little Dorrit (2008 TV serial) – score
Freema Agyeman appearedIn Little Dorrit
Hablot Knight Browne illustrated Little Dorrit