Bleak Houses
Subtitle: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: November 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780821416426
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Marriage in literature; Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; 19th century; Domestic fiction, English
First sentence: IN "THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE" (1904), Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to investigate a murder in an upper-class home.