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Bleak House: Introduction by Barbara Hardy
Hardcover
Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0679405682
ISBN13: 9780679405689
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Oct 15 1991
Pages: 1032
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.77 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679405689
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Oct 15 1991
Pages: 1032
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.77 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel, presented here in stunning hardcover, of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit--and through it he achieved a stature almost Shakespearean.
The complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.
The complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.
Jarndyce and Jarndyce is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbors are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, blackmail, and murder. The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. With an introduction by Barbara Hardy. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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