Little Dorrit - Brossura

Dickens, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853261823 ISBN 13: 9781853261824

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circumlocution Office. The novel's range of characters - the honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying - offers a portrait of society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts. Little Dorrit is indisputably one of Dickens' finest works, written at the height of his powers. George Bernard Shaw called it `a masterpiece among masterpices', a vedict shared by the novel's many admirers.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Slater is Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College in the University of London. He was editor of The Dickensian (1968-77) and President of the International Dickens Fellowship (1988-90). He has published many books and articles on Dickens.

Product Description:

Book by Charles Dickens

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853261823
• ISBN 13: 9781853261824
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 848