Bleak House

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by Charles Dickens

Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

 

Description

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.

Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A ‘great Victorian novel’, it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

Additional information

Book Condition

Used – Good

Cover

Paperback

Size

723 pages, 120x200x41mm

Published

1993 by Wordsworth Editions, First published January 1, 1853

Book Series

Wordsworth Classics

Genre

Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction

Bleak House

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