Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens masterfully reveals social problems through the lens of human destinies.

The novel is set in the infamous Marshalsea debtor’s prison, where young Amy Dorrit was born and raised—an innocent child of injustice who has managed to keep her soul pure in spite of her circumstances.

More than twenty years earlier, the unlucky businessman William Dorrit went bankrupt, failed to pay his creditors in time, and ended up in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison. His entire family was forced to move there with him—and it was in Marshalsea that his youngest daughter, Amy, was born.

It was then that the fragile shoulders of Amy—nicknamed “Little Dorrit” for her tiny stature—soon came to carry the care of the entire family. Enduring every hardship with quiet fortitude, the modest girl earns her living through honest labor and tries to look after her father, sister, and brother. Little Dorrit has no idea what surprise fate is preparing for her…