Volume 36, Number 1 · February 2, 1989
Dorrit Without Politics
By Garry Wills
Little Dorrit
a film directed by Christine Edzard, based on the novel by Charles Dickens
In a political riposte addressed to Chesterton, Shaw wrote: 'The bond of sympathy between Mr. Sidney Webb and myself is that we were both brought up on Little Dorrit. No use coming Dickens over us.'[1] Little Dorrit was Shaw's favorite work by his favorite novelist (a profession he aspired to himself when most under Dickens's influence). He ranked Dorrit even higher than Great Expectations because of its scathing social analysis:
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