Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore, Adam Leverton · first published 1800
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Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens's other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.
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…of Cancer (novel) - Tenth of December (short story collection). - Endurance (non-fiction) - The Billion Dollar Spy (non-fiction) - Agent Sonya (non-fiction) - Agent Running in the Field (novel) - Little Dorrit (novel) To be honest, I love most of the stuff I read this year. Only a handful of books I didn't like enough to read through.
on “Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?” ↗Charles Dickens perfectly described it in Little Dorrit when he described the Circumlocution Office[1]. Having worked with such people, I can confirm they still exist in the UK public sector and have only increased their power. They have an amazing ability…
on “MPs win surveillance powers legal challenge” ↗…their heels through Banking 101. Edit: Also funny, was the unrelated Matt Damon TV ads about how "Fortune Favors the Brave." Obviously it comes from Caesar, but it was also used in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit by a character encouraging what later turned out a Ponzi scheme...
on “FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns” ↗…belittle Joyce's talent. Ulysses is obviously a huge accomplishment, beyond nearly all writers.) Compare that with, say, Dickens. People would drop what they were doing to read the next installment of Little Dorrit.
on “Finnegans Wake: the book the web was invented for” ↗…http://ahmadsoft.org/typesetting.html You can compare the quality of the artwork with the nearest alternative, available here: https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/mahoney/ot.html I've also been working on typesetting Little Dorrit. Unfortunately, the text of both books have a lot of typographical errors that I'd like to correct at some point. Perhaps some future advance in machine learning will help me automate the process because…
on “Old Book Illustrations” ↗