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Charles Dickens - Bleak House - 9780199536313 - KMK0021693
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Bleak House

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Description for Bleak House paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 992 pages, frontispiece, original illustrations by 'Phiz', 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 672. Clean copy showing light shelf wear. Small section of pages at a slight angle where they have been misbound. Remains a good copy
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Good
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Number of Pages
992
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536313
SKU
KMK0021693
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Charles Dickens
Stephen Gill is Reader in English Literature at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College.

Reviews for Bleak House
... the novel is undeniably significant in the history of crime fiction.
Lucy Worsley, Huffington Post Books

Goodreads reviews for Bleak House


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