PC Bleak House

Dickens, Charles

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‘Bleak House’ challenges the reader to make connections between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly and the powerful and the victims. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth.

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Publish Date: 27/03/2003
ISBN: 9780141439723 Category: Tag:

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‘Perhaps his best novel … when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up’ G. K. Chesterton

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, a destitute crossing-sweeper. A savage indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing-rooms of the aristocracy to the London slums.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury with a Preface by Terry Eagleton

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Weight 730 g
Dimensions 197 × 128 × 49 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

1036

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

823.8 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K