num_pages: 880
description: Bleak House , Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections--between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and their victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaringsociety more imaginatively embodied, and nowhere is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.
language: English
title: Bleak House
titlecomplete: Bleak House (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
characters: Lady Dedlock, Mr Tulkinghorn, Allan Woodcourt, Esther Summerson, Caroline Jellyby, John Jarndyce, Jo, Mr Bucket, Ada Clare, William Guppy, Joshua Smallweed, Harold Skimpole, Charlotte Neckett, Mr George, Mr Snagsby, Richard Carstone, Sir Leicester Dedlock
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 107002
places: England
publisher: Oxford University Press