BLEAK HOUSE
by DICKENS, CHARLES
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
NZ$868.56NZ$694.85
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [vi]vii-xvi [1]2-624. FIRST EDITION. Bound in light brown half leather over marbled boards, all edges trimmed. The novel was first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The first edition after the serial. Dickens uses this novel to satirize the British judicial system. Though the legal profession criticized Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. This is a very good, or better, copy of the first edition.
Dickens' novel of the British judicial system. Considered by many to be his best work.
Dickens' novel of the British judicial system. Considered by many to be his best work.
Synopsis
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by omniscient narrator.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005232
- Title
- BLEAK HOUSE
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.20 lbs
- Keywords
- Charles Dickens, Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and jarndyce, Legal battles, first edition, Esther Summerson, Lady Dedlock, John Jarndyce, Serial Novel, Sub-plots, Omniscient Narrator, Legal Reform, Hablot Knight Browne, Victorian Ideals, Feminine Modesty, S
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About the Seller
MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
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Uxbridge, Ontario
About MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
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