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It was a happy day when I, for whatever reason, elected to sample Charles Dickens. Having read A Tale of Two Cities in high school, I digressed to more popular fiction (Michener, Clavell, McMurtry, King, Grisham), as well as periods of science fiction and even non-fiction (Ambrose, McCollough for example), before making an effort to upgrade my reading list.

I read some Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Steinbeck and Hemingway with mixed success before reading Great Expectations. I liked it enough to read David Copperfield, and I was hooked. A Tale of Two Cities followed and then Oliver Twist (not my favorite), Bleak House, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Pickwick Papers and Dombey and Son before taking on this door stop of a novel.

Many of Dickens’s works tend to be lengthy and excessively wordy, perhaps due to their nature of having been serialized prior to being printed in a single volume. Truth be told, after having read Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Tale of Two Cities I confess to being disappointed with several of the following Dickens novels, particularly Bleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey and Son. This novel however restored my faith. While Dickens is certainly famous for character development, and I’ve found no one better, the novels that I’ve truly enjoyed have been those that also feature an advancement of story line and this one is no different in that regard. It is simply an outstanding story, with all of the outrageous characters that you’ve come to expect in any Dickens work.

As in other Dickens works, a period of acclimation is required to become comfortable with the vocabulary and social conventions of the era. Having read almost all of Dickens’s work, I would have to rank this as my third favorite, after David Copperfield and Tale of Two Cities.


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Little Dorrit Penguin Classics Charles Dickens Helen Small Stephen Wall 9780141439969 Books Reviews

For years I hesitated to read the longer and lesser known of Charles Dickens’ novels, worrying that they would be too painful to really enjoy. In fact, some of them have been, and others, while being less depressing overall, have still had some stretches so overshadowed by poverty and the like that they were depressing to read. Little Dorrit is no exception to this; since a large part of it takes place in the Marshalsea debtor’s prison, there is a certain drabness to some parts. However, this was only a slight damper to the story as a whole, and the characters were interesting enough that you wanted to see how they came out.

Of particular interest as a group (although they were individually rather boring) were the Barnacles of the Circumlocution Office. Dickens’ portrayal of these people and the institution they infested (whose avowed purpose was to see that nothing got done) was hilarious. The Barnacles bear too much resemblance to people still living and serving in the government of our own country to suppose that they, in particular, were not drawn true to life.

The Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, however, are really only tangential to the lives of the main characters. True, they may have caused the financial ruin of some of the parties at various times, but this seems to have been more of an accident than anything else. They are too large an interest for anything or anyone else to be of much consequence to them.

Poor Arthur Clennam seems unable to win for losing. Raised by a mother so strict she seems to be made of ice or metal, he was sent to China with his father twenty or more years earlier expressly to keep him away from a girl he had taken a fancy to. Now returning to London all these years later after his father’s death, he renounces all interest in the family business (which seems to be some sort of banking and/or money-lending business). He visits his old love, to discover that she is now another man’s widow and a hopeless airhead, although she evidently still has a basically good heart. He visits a friend he met on his way back to England several times, but deliberately decides not to court the friend’s daughter, telling himself he is now too old for that sort of thing. Partly as a consequence of this, she winds up married to a man who turns out not to be worthy of her.

In the process of winding up his father’s affairs at this mother’s house, Clennam sees but isn’t more than barely introduced to, a young woman who is referred to there as Little Dorrit. Clennam takes it into his head that his mother has taken this obviously poor girl on to do sewing as a sop for some serious injustice done to her family at some time in the past, and he resolves to do his best to make it up to her somehow. This resolve is reinforced when he finds out that Little Dorrit and her father live in the Marshalsea Prison.

The strange turns their lives take after this are enough to keep you reading all through the long novel.
This book was so good I wasn't ready to let it go. In fact after reading it I then went and picked up the audio book and listened to it, and I'm still letting it play through for the second time around. I don't want to let these characters go.

Arthur is this genuine, sweet, good hearted soul who just wants to do the right things.
Little Dorrit is a sweet girl who does her best for her family.
Fanny Dorrit is living the best life she knows how given a disposition that has become a bit bitter.
William Dorrit is a mixture of pompous conceit and fragile pathetic character.
Pancks is the guy who gets stuck doing the dirty work of another and still turns out to be a good person.
Poor Flora is this utterly silly woman who you can tell from her character has a lot of feeling but has little ability to express those feelings without seeming ridiculous-- there's at least one person in everyone's past who has made them come off a little ridiculous, isn't there?

There are so very many characters I can't give you a sketch of all of them, but I can say that many of them are likable, all of them are relatable in one fashion or another.

I can't say the story is exactly believable. Of course there certainly were debtor's prisons, and very likely Dickens would know more about them than I would, that's not the part I find hard to believe. It's the rich dead uncle that rescued them all that is about as far fetched as the fairy tales of poor young women being found and married to a prince. Still it was an amazingly enjoyable tale and I will have to move on eventually, but not tonight. Tonight I'll immerse myself in this story and let it play on and on.
It was a happy day when I, for whatever reason, elected to sample Charles Dickens. Having read A Tale of Two Cities in high school, I digressed to more popular fiction (Michener, Clavell, McMurtry, King, Grisham), as well as periods of science fiction and even non-fiction (Ambrose, McCollough for example), before making an effort to upgrade my reading list.

I read some Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Steinbeck and Hemingway with mixed success before reading Great Expectations. I liked it enough to read David Copperfield, and I was hooked. A Tale of Two Cities followed and then Oliver Twist (not my favorite), Bleak House, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Pickwick Papers and Dombey and Son before taking on this door stop of a novel.

Many of Dickens’s works tend to be lengthy and excessively wordy, perhaps due to their nature of having been serialized prior to being printed in a single volume. Truth be told, after having read Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Tale of Two Cities I confess to being disappointed with several of the following Dickens novels, particularly Bleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey and Son. This novel however restored my faith. While Dickens is certainly famous for character development, and I’ve found no one better, the novels that I’ve truly enjoyed have been those that also feature an advancement of story line and this one is no different in that regard. It is simply an outstanding story, with all of the outrageous characters that you’ve come to expect in any Dickens work.

As in other Dickens works, a period of acclimation is required to become comfortable with the vocabulary and social conventions of the era. Having read almost all of Dickens’s work, I would have to rank this as my third favorite, after David Copperfield and Tale of Two Cities.