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Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens's ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons, in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens's other critiques in this particular novel concern the social safety net; industry and the treatment and safety of workers; the bureaucracy of the British Treasury (as figured in the fictional "Circumlocution Office."

Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Illustrated by Arthur Rackham This Folio edition, a facsimile of the British edition of 1909, contains sixty of The Brothers Grimm's most famous tales, including 'Snow White', Hansel and Gretel' and 'Red Riding Hood'. Production Details Grimm 60 classics collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas. Bound in full cloth. Set in Scotch Roman. 40 colour plates and 55 black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Book size: 10" x 7 1/2". 336 pages.