Bleak House Paperback - 2006
by Dickens, Charles; Bradbury, Nicola; Bradbury, Nicola; Brown, Hablot K.
The eight-hour Masterpiece Theatre miniseries of Charles Dickens's Bleak House stars GillianAnderson (The House of Mirth, X-Files) and features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones's Diary).
Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society, from the simpleminded Sir Leicester Dedlock to Jo the street sweeper. A savage but often comic indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
Summary
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.
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- Title Bleak House
- Author Dickens, Charles; Bradbury, Nicola; Bradbury, Nicola; Brown, Hablot K.
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 1024
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York
- Date 2006-01-06
- ISBN 9780143037613
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