(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Of the complex, richly
rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life,
Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully
unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian
society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation
nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of
the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a
bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning example of how
thoroughly Dickens could put his flair for the theatrical and his
comic genius the service of his passion for justice.