Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Bleak House
Buch
- Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury. Preface by Terry Eagleton
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 03/2003
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780141439723
- Bestellnummer: 2175785
- Umfang: 1036 Seiten
- Sonstiges: w. ill.
- Copyright-Jahr: 2003
- Gewicht: 738 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 55 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 27.3.2003
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
The unabridged text of Dickens's classic tale that offers both a scathing satire on the corruption of the law and a vivid portrait of London life.Beschreibung
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.Klappentext
Charles Dickens's masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal systemAs the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-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. This edition follows the first book edition of 1853, and includes all the original illustrations by 'Phiz', as well as appendices on the Chancery and spontaneous combustion. In his preface, Terry Eagleton examines characterisation and considers Bleak House as an early work of detective fiction.
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