Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens1 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 a society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts.