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Violence
Barely any
No violence; the suffering is systemic and economic
Language
Barely any
Victorian literary prose; no profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
A gentle love story within Victorian conventions
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of a social system that traps people in poverty through bureaucratic indifference
What this book is about
Amy Dorrit—Little Dorrit—was born in and has never left the Marshalsea debtors' prison where her father has lived for decades. Dickens's long, ambitious novel is a critique of the Circumlocution Office (his satire of government bureaucracy) and a love story between Amy and Arthur Clennam. One of his darkest social panoramas.
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