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Bleak House

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Terry Eagleton, Nicola Bradbury
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Bleak Houseopens 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780141439723
ISBN10 0141439726
Series/Work OL14868510W View on OpenLibrary
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

823/.8 Bildungsromans Bleak House (Dickens, Charles) British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) Chang pian xiao shuo Classic Literature Classics Domestic fiction Enfants naturels England, fiction English Christmas stories English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh English literature European Fiction Fiction, coming of age Fiction, family life Fiction, family life, general Fiction, general Fiction, historical

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