Category: Fiction: Literature

Copyright/published Year: by Penguin

ISBN: 0141439726

Binding: Paper

Description: Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where ì fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The ì obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is ì gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther ì Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of ì Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the ì crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to ì portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has ì done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and ì magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of ì Dickens. A "great Victorian novel," it is so inventive in its ì competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

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