Bleak house
By: Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Gill.
Contributors: Gill, Stephen Charles.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 945
ISBN-13: 9780199536313
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction.; Illegitimate children -- Fiction.; Guardian and ward -- Fiction.; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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 the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.