Bleak House
Dickens, Charles, 1812-18702011
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is transformed by the resilience of human love.
Main title:
Bleak House / by Charles Dickens.
Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870Bradbury, Nicola, 1951-, editor,, author of introduction, etcEagleton, Terry, 1943-, author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2011.
Collation:
xxxix, 1036 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
First published: 1853."This edition first published 1996. Reissued with a new preface and revised Dickens chronology 2003. This edition published 2011"--T.p. verso.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780141198354 (hardback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
399549
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