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Bleak House

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater
Afterword by Elizabeth McCracken

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater
Afterword by Elizabeth McCracken

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater
Afterword by Elizabeth McCracken

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater
Afterword by Elizabeth McCracken

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Apr 05, 2011 | ISBN 9780451531902

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Apr 05, 2011 | ISBN 9781101528525

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    About Bleak House

    In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. A sterling example of Dickens’s genius for character, dramatic construction, and social satire, this novel was hailed by Edmund Wilson as a “masterpiece”.

    About Bleak House

    Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther’s romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set against the foggy backdrop of the Court of Chancery. Mixing romance, mystery, comedy, and satire, Bleak House limns the suffering caused by the intricate inefficiency of the law.

    The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the first single-volume edition, published by Bradbury & Evans in 1853, and reproduces thirty-nine of H. K. Browne’s original illustrations for the book.

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    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $8.95
    Published by Signet
    Apr 05, 2011 | 960 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451531902

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Signet
    Apr 05, 2011 | 960 Pages | ISBN 9781101528525

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    “Perhaps Bleak House is his best novel. . . . When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up.” —G. K. Chesterton

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