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debird 's review for:
Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
I know what I am getting when I open the cover of a Dickens novel, and have to gather up a certain amount of endurance to make it through to the end. His brilliant writing and wit carry me along despite impatience with many characters who are caricatures, as well as his view of the perfect woman, who is selfless and ever loyal to her doltish family. I learned about the ways of debtors' prison in the Victorian era, a cruel but oddly benign institution.