Amy 'Little Dorrit,' born inside the Marshalsea debtors' prison, and the returning Arthur Clennam are swept through sudden fortune and financial ruin in a satire of bureaucracy and speculation.
Books mentioned in Little Dorrit (2)
A Thousand and One Nights: “as if she had come into possession of the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights”
Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: “…by the whole society of China without setting myself right when I have the opportunity of doing so, and you must be very well aware that there was Paul and Virginia which had to be returned and which was returned without note or comment, not that I mean to say you could have written to me…”
Books that mention Little Dorrit (3)
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope: “And when he got home, he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the Little Dorrit of the day with great inward satisfaction.”
Grant by Ron Chernow: “Grant retained special affection for Dickens, especially The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, and Oliver Twist.”
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “...such as Little Dorrit, War and Peace, To the Lighthouse, or The Lord of the Rings...”