Bleak House

Author:   Charles Dickens ,  Michael Slater ,  Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
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9780451531902


Pages:   960
Publication Date:   05 April 2011
Format:   Paperback
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"In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. A sterling example of Dickens's genius for character, dramatic construction, and social satire, this novel was hailed by Edmund Wilson as a ""masterpiece""."

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Author:   Charles Dickens ,  Michael Slater ,  Elizabeth McCracken
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   Signet
Dimensions:   Width: 10.60cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 17.10cm
Weight:   0.448kg
ISBN:  

9780451531902


ISBN 10:   0451531906
Pages:   960
Publication Date:   05 April 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Perhaps Bleak House is his best novel. . . . When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up. G. K. Chesterton


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


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"Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and ""slave"" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work. Michael Slater is an emeritus professor at Birkbeck College, London, and past president of the Dickens Fellowship and the Dickens Society of America."

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