Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens classic novel with biography, plot summary, character analysis and more.

The book is a satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period.

Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons -- in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.