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Bleak House

Door Charles Dickens

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#357146-XI25
Titel
Bleak House
Auteur
Dickens, Charles
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London/New York : Everyman's Library
Jaar van uitgave
1991
ISBN10
1857150082
ISBN13
9781857150087
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original burgundy cloth, dust jacket, ribbon marker, b/w illustrations, 8vo. Everyman's Library Classics.
Samenvatting
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.
Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens's finest achievements, Bleak House tells the complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of nineteenth-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it. Displaying the writer's familiar panoramic sweep and enormous
... (Lees verder)cast of brilliant characters, the novel is also a bold experimental narrative in which public and private worlds are brought into sharp focus. It was first published in monthly parts, 1852-3, accompanied by the illustrations by 'Phiz' reproduced in this volume. This edition also reprints the original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton.
Pagina's
880
Conditie
Goed — Small stain top cut.
Prijs
€ 9,00

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