Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)

Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)

by Charles Dickens (Author), StephenGill (Editor)

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 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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 992
Edition: New
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 05 Mar 1998

ISBN 10: 0192834010
ISBN 13: 9780192834010
Prizes: Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

Media Reviews
The Notes and Introduction are solid without being obtrusive. --Michael Kearns, University of Texas
The editorial scholarship lavished on these letters is, as ever, beyond praise. --Dickens Quarterly


The Notes and Introduction are solid without being obtrusive. --Michael Kearns, University of Texas
The editorial scholarship lavished on these letters is, as ever, beyond praise. --Dickens Quarterly

The Notes and Introduction are solid without being obtrusive. --Michael Kearns, University of Texas
The editorial scholarship lavished on these letters is, as ever, beyond praise. --Dickens Quarterly


The Notes and Introduction are solid without being obtrusive. --Michael Kearns, University of Texas


The editorial scholarship lavished on these letters is, as ever, beyond praise. --Dickens Quarterly