A dark and brilliant satire in which the decadent Dorrit family becomes a lens through which Dickens focuses his withering portrait of an entire society. Everything about mid-century English institutions - politics, law, business, finance and the prison system - is found to be wanting, and the book presents a world redeemed only by the faith and goodness of "Little" Amy Dorrit, the Child of the Marshalsea. This edition reprints the original Everyman introduction by G.K.Chesterton and includes forty illustrations by "Phiz".