A review by jimsreadingandstuff
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

4.0

This took an age to read, I was waylaid in the kafkaesque circumlocution office for far too long. Not my favorite Dickens (that would be David Copperfield) but I am glad I've finally read it. Amy Dorrit, the Little Dorrit of the title is a retiring self-sacrificing young woman, who was born in the Marchelsea Prison for debtors, where her father was incarcerated. There is a lot about imprisonment in the book, Dickens himself knew debtor's prisons all too well, his father having been imprisoned for debt. As with all Dickens novels there is a cast of colorful characters, there are many rogues and villains. There are travels in France, Switzerland and Italy but the book returns to London, a city well known in Dickens' writings. I have far more to say about this book, but I'll stop here for now to process what I have just read.