Bleak House
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4.1 • 14 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K. Chesterton
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 Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, a destitute crossing-sweeper. A savage 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 London slums.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury with a Preface by Terry Eagleton
Customer Reviews
The Best Edition
The previous reviewer is mistaken; they are two, entirely different editions, the one crudely formatted and without the editorial apparatus of the excellent Penguin edition. This is the one on offer here, at a pittance of what it wold cost in a book shop. Buy with confidence - a bargain.
Reasonably formatted, appallingly proof-read
I bought this edition for the editorial extras and for the formatting, which makes for a better reading experience than the free alternatives (an important consideration given that Bleak House is such a long, florid tale). Unfortunately, Penguin forgot (apparently) to give it a proof-read. It is absolutely riddled with errors: mainly typos and spacing glitches that look suspiciously like OCR leftovers. I've counted a couple of hundred so far. And there I was thinking the big, old, traditional publishing houses were custodians of quality. #epicfail
Bleak price
Mr Dickens must have written two versions! This one is 7.99 the other is free from Guttenberg project. Apple have the neck for anything. Unbelievable.