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Originally Posted by issybird
One of my themes for this year is the 19th century novel and I've finally got around to Dickens. I went with Little Dorrit as it was the only one in the first six of Time magazine's top ten list as chosen at his centenary that I haven't read.
Unfortunately, it's reminding me forcibly of why Dickens has never been one of my favorites among the Victorian novelists. Overly polemical? Check. Insipid female characters? Check. I'm already on board as debtors' prisons being a very bad thing and while I grant little Dorrit herself is noble and long-suffering, she's also insufferably tedious.
I hope things pick up, as this is a long 'un. |
If reading it isn't working for you, Mil Nicolson (who is a professional reader) did an
audiobook of Little Dorrit for Librivox. She has done almost all of Dickens and is an absolute delight to listen to.