Bleak House - Brossura

Dickens, Charles

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ISBN 10: 030794719X ISBN 13: 9780307947192

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2012

Riassunto

One of Charles Dickens’s most critically admired novels, this story of a monumental and life-consuming court case features one of his most vast and varied casts of colorful characters.

In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance—complicated by murder—have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as “the family curse.” The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens’s satirical wrath. Displaying Dickens’s familiar panoramic sweep and brilliant characters—including the mysterious orphan Esther Summerson, her gentle guardian John Jarndyce, the haughty Lady Dedlock, and the scheming lawyer Mr. Tulkinghorn—the novel is also a bold experimental narrative that unforgettably dramatizes our most basic human conflicts.
 

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Recensione:

“His best novel. . . . When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up.” —G. K. Chesterton

L'autore:

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his life in London. When he was twelve, his father was sent to debtor’s prison and he was forced to work in a boot polish factory, an experience that marked him for life. He became a passionate advocate of social reform and the most popular writer of the Victorian era.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 030794719X
• ISBN 13: 9780307947192
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 880