
Bleak House
Edited by Stephen Gill
Charles Dickens(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
966 pages
978-0-19-283401-0 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
ill., frontispiece, 2 Karten
illustrations, 2 maps, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-283401-0 (9780192834010)
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Charles Dickens | Stephen Gill
Bleak House
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