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Bleak House Hardcover 1987 Classic Charles Dickens Novel-image

Bleak House Hardcover 1987 Classic Charles Dickens Novel

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Language: English Publication Year: 1987 Synopsis: 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 their victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, and nowhere is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed., 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 their victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, and nowhere is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed., 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. ISBN-10: 0192545035 Format: Hardcover Item Length: 5 in Number of Pages: 902 Pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Dewey Decimal: 823.83 brand: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Book Series: Oxford Illustrated Dickens Ser. Illustrator: Yes Item Width: 7.6 in Item Height: 1.8 in Book Title: Bleak House Item Weight: 28.9 Oz Intended Audience: Trade ISBN-13: 9780192545039 Dewey Edition: 22 Author: Charles Dickens Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction gtin13: 9780192545039 Topic: Literary, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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