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Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens

After returning home from a long period spent working in China, a man tries to assist a family forced to live in a debtor’s prison.

Themes: Fiction · Drama

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Dickens begins with a city locked in a staring match with the sun—every house, road, and hill is transfixed. Yet this relentless gaze hesitates at a prison cell. Ready to step into the shadow the sun refuses to see?

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Book I: Poverty

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