TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens,Charles,1812-1870
AU  - Bradbury,Nicola
TI  - Bleak House
SN  - 0141439726 (pbk.)
AV  - PR 4556 
U1  - 823/.8 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Young women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Guardian and ward
KW  - Illegitimate children
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Legal stories
KW  - gsaf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references p. (xxxvii-[xxxviii])
N2  - 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. Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is transformed by the resilience of human love
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