Bleak House - Preface by Terry Eagleton
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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2011 |
| Seiten | 1088 |
| Format | 13,8 x 20,4 x 4,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 938 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| ISBN-10 | 0141198354 |
| EAN | 9780141198354 |
| Bestell-Nr | 14119835EA |
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. As 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.
Rezension:
Perhaps Bleak House is his best novel. . . . When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up. G. K. Chesterton