Bleak House
Title:
Bleak House
Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Penguin Books, [2003]
©2003
Physical Description:
xxxix, 1036 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
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.
General Note:
"Reissued with a new preface and revised Dickens chronology"--T.p. verso.
"This edition published 2011"--T.p. verso.
Language:
English
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.8 67.0 60407.
ISBN:
9780141198354
9780141439723
Format :
Book