Little Dorrit
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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.
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I loved reading this book so much. I don´t know where to start. The social criticism, the humor, the wonderful characters, the story... Dickens basically did everything right writing this. I personally struggle with books that have too many different characters, which sometimes made it hard to follow the story, but somehow that did not lessen my enjoyment. I especially enjoyed how there was no big goal to achieve or anything else pre-determined to guess the twists and turns of the story. Thats hard to come by in fiction. Everything that happend was more or less a surprise and that was so enjoyable. I loved how the characters were so likeable and portrayed with some dignity while also making fun of their flaws. It could be long at times, but I would not represent how much I liked reading it if I gave less than 5 stars.
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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.
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I loved reading this book so much. I don´t know where to start. The social criticism, the humor, the wonderful characters, the story... Dickens basically did everything right writing this. I personally struggle with books that have too many different characters, which sometimes made it hard to follow the story, but somehow that did not lessen my enjoyment. I especially enjoyed how there was no big goal to achieve or anything else pre-determined to guess the twists and turns of the story. Thats hard to come by in fiction. Everything that happend was more or less a surprise and that was so enjoyable. I loved how the characters were so likeable and portrayed with some dignity while also making fun of their flaws. It could be long at times, but I would not represent how much I liked reading it if I gave less than 5 stars.