Bleak House
(2010)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC , 2010
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781596253605 (electronic bk.) MWT11907633, 1596253606 (electronic bk.) 11907633
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring Michael Kitchen

Widely considered one of Dickens most superb and complete novels, "Bleak House" has a complex plot that contains one of his most elaborate attacks on a flaw of society: the chancery system. The kind John Jarndyce is tied up in litigation that only his wards Richard and Ada care to discuss. He then becomes guardian of Esther, an orphaned young woman who comprises a part of the experimental narration of the novel. A series of events take the vast array of comic and tragic characters from the slums of London to the mansions of noblemen, involving some in treachery and others in discovery. Dickens blends the perfect balance of comedy and social satire in a story that contains mystery, tragedy, murder, redemption, and enduring love

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