Little Dorrit
(2018)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media, 2018
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781787246157 (electronic bk.) MWT12175878, 1787246159 (electronic bk.) 12175878
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The novel satirizes the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury
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