Little Dorrit (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Little Dorrit (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

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Descripción Softcover. Condición: new. Reprint. About the AuthorCharles John Huffam Dickens 18121870 was born in Portsmouth and eventually became a reporter in London With a virtually unbroken string of literary successes Dickens gained unparalleled international fame and stature He is best known for the works A Christmas Carol Oliver Twist Great Expectations and A Tale of Two CitiesProduct DescriptionOne of Charles Dickens most personally resonant novels Little Dorrit speaks across the centuries to the modern reader Its depiction of shady financiers and banking collapses seems uncannily topical as does Dickens compassionate admiration for Amy Dorrit the child of the Marshalsea as she struggles to hold her family together in the face of neglect irresponsibility and ruin Intricate in its plotting the novel also satirizes the cumbersome machinery of government For Dickens Little Dorrit marked a return to some of the most harrowing scenes of his childhood with its graphic depiction of the trauma of the debtors prison and its portrait of a world ignored by society The novel not only explores the literal prison but also the figurative jails that characters build for themselvesExcerpt Reprinted by permission All rights reservedOne of Charles Dickens most personally resonant novels Little Dorrit speaks across the centuries to the modern reader Its depictions of shady financiers and banking collapses seem uncannily topical as does Dickens compassionate admiration for Amy Dorrit the child of the Marshalsea struggling to hold her family together in the face of neglect irresponsibility and ruin The novel was controversial during its time George Bernard Shaw famously described Little Dorrit as a more seditious book than Das Kapital while G K Chesterton writing at the end of the nineteenth century commented that it remained a complete picture of the way England is actually governed at this moment1 Intricate in its plotting the novel deals partly with the interconnected lives of Little Dorrit and Arthur Clennam partly with the rise of the fraudulent capitalist Mr Merdle whilst also satirizing the cumbersome machinery of government For Dickens Little Dorrit marked a return to some of the most harrowing scenes of his childhood with its graphic depiction of the trauma of the debtors prison and its portrait of a world ignored by society The novel explores the literal prison but also the figurative jails that characters build for themselvesCharles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth England in 1812 His father John Dickens was employed as a pay clerk for the royal navy and was known as a popular generous man His financial affairs were however extremely precarious and he struggled with debt for most of his adult life In 1824 John Dickens was arrested and like William Dorrit he was incarcerated as a debtor in the Marshalsea Prison His sons biographer John Forster was later to recount that as John Dickens entered through the gates of the prison he declared rather melodramatically to the young Charles that the sun had set on him foreverwords that left his son feeling utterly heartbroken and alone in the world In an autobiographical fragment that remained unpublished until after his death Dickens recounted a visit to the prison and the advice that his father gave himMy father was waiting for me in the lodge and we went up to his room and cried very much And he told me to take warning by the Marshalsea and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a year and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence he would be happy but that a shilling spent the other way would make him wretched2These words were later to find their way into the mouth of the amiable wastrel Wilkins Micawber in David Copperfield 18491850 although as Dickens shows in Little Dorrit debtors were seldom as carefree as his loveable comic creationAs was the custom for debtors John Dickens fam. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX1435116429

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