Little Dorrit is a long story written by Charles Dickens, published in 1855 and 1857. There are two parts in this novel. The author, through the depiction of the prison of the author's friend's father, criticizes the weaknesses of the government and the society.

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, the representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where the author's own father had been imprisoned.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1886) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.