Bleak House

Dickens, Charles

4.02

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ISBN 10: 0141804637 ISBN 13: 9780141804637

Publisher: Penguin, 2003

Paperback. Pub Date: 2003 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks; Unaidged As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce Grinds its way through the Court of Chancery it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare. whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson. a ward of court. whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo. the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage. but often comic. indictment of a society that is rotten to the core. Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels. with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

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Review:

Dickens's chilling tale of murder and betrayal ( Sunday Times )

Kafka's favourite book, a tour de force that mixes grand scale and minutely-observed, perfectly-heard reality. Incomparable set-pieces (that opening! spontaneous combustion!) and dialogue (James Hawes )

I keep on reading it in order to discover how to write a novel (John Mortimer )

Bleak House reads like an encyclopedia not only of its time and place but of us (Elizabeth Kostova )

Bleak House is the literati's favourite Dickens. It's one of the few stories that has modern resonance: the tale of a never-ending court case can be seen -if you squint -as the precursor of Kafka and Orwell (A.A. Gill )

Book Description:

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

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