Bleak House

Name: Bleak House
Brand: Pan Macmillan
SKU: 9781509825424
Price: 15.38 EUR
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Hardback | English

By (author): Charles Dickens

Illustrated by: H. K. Browne

Complete and unabridged.

Bleak House is not only a love story and a tightly plotted murder mystery, but also a condemnation of the corruption at the heart of English society.

Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by David Stuart Davies and original illustrations by H. K. Browne.

The inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been going on for generations involving myriad characters from all walks of life. Theres Esther Summerson, Dickens' feisty heroine; Sir Leicester and Lady Dedlock, cocooned in their stately home in Lincolnshire; and Jo, the penniless crossing sweeper. We are drawn in and fascinated by the complex relationships. Indeed in none of Charles Dickens other novels is the canvas broader, the sweep more inclusive, the linguistic texture richer and the gallery of comic grotesques more extraordinary.

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Product Details

Format: Hardback
Weight: 608g
Dimensions: 109 x 157mm
Publication Date: 06 Feb 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781509825424

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824 Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832 and by 1836 he had begun his first novel The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing completing fourteen highly successful novels including Great Expectations Oliver Twist and Bleak House as well as penning journalism shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.