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Item specifics - Textbooks, Education

Author:	Andrew Sanders, Charles Dickens	Format:	--
Publisher:	Everymans Library	ISBN-10:	0460874233
ISBN-13:	9780460874236	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	--
Subject:	--	Language:	--
Condition:	Good

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Synopsis
The English legal system is the main object of Dickens's satire in BLEAK HOUSE, perhaps the first legal thriller, which centers on the interminable case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce as it makes its tortuous way over the generations through the Court of Chancery. The battle drags on, the litigants are ruined by the legal fees, and the case itself becomes so convoluted that no one--lawyers, judges, plaintiffs--even remembers entirely what is at stake. As Dickens takes us through the case's history, he creates his usual array of vividly realized comic, tragic, and satirical figures, from the corrupt lawyer, Tulkinghorn, to the pathetic crossing-sweeper, little Jo, to the clerk called Nemo, including characters with such wonderful monikers as Krook, Snagsby, Lord Doodle, and the perfectly named Lord and Lady Dedlock. As he does so often, Dickens shows us in BLEAK HOUSE--perhaps his most ambitious novel--that venality, corruption, and vanity have always been a part of human nature. Under the high comedy, he also shows us, very clearly, the anger and indignation these qualities roused in him, and his compassion for the helplessness of the poor in the face of a social and legal system that seems, at times, designed only to destroy them.
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Series:	Everyman's Library Series

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Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	2.0 in.
Weight:	21.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.
Industry reviews
"In the realm of mystery stories there are four books which everyone should read. They are 'The Lodger', 'Malice' 'Aforethought', 'Bleak House', and 'The Nine Tailors'." Sinclair Lewis "In the realm of mystery stories there are four books which everyone should read. They are THE LODGER, MALICE AFORETHOUGHT, BLEAK HOUSE, and THE NINE TAILORS." "The strengths of BLEAK HOUSE are the integration of different structures, together with what would seem an irresistibly deconstructive impulse. The very activity of reading, paralleled to the business of detection, implicates us in the processes that are shown to be perverse. The novel holds the balance between mystery and revelation, literary creation and analytical destruction." introduction - Nicola Bradbury

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0460874233
Title : Bleak House (Dickens Collection)
EAN : 9780460874236
Authors : Charles Dickens
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group, Ltd.
Publication Date : 1994-12-15
Pages : 912
List Price (MSRP) : 6.95
Height : 2.0200 inches
Width : 5.1400 inches
Length : 7.7900 inches
Weight : 1.3400 pounds
Keywords : General, Paperback, General AAS, Dickens, Charles, Literary, Classics, Printed Books
Condition : Good
Classification Notes : All new inventory received to basement

clean pages good condition overall sharp corners tight spine

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