Bleak House

ISBN-13: 9781551119311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 832 str.

Charles Dickens

Opis

The labyrinthine plot of Bleak House focuses on a seemingly endless inheritance dispute. Dozens of characters, including the innocent young narrator Esther Summerson, her friends Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, and the jaded aristocrats Sir and Lady Dedlock, are directly or indirectly caught up in the case. Written in bold and inventive language, it is Dicken's epic vision of Victorian society. The critical introduction and appendices to this edition focus on the novel's social context and reception.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Charles Dickens: A Brief Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Bleak House
• Appendix A: Dickens’s Working Notes for Bleak House
• Appendix B: The Reception of Bleak House
• Appendix C: The Role and Status of Women
• Appendix D: The Court of Chancery
• Appendix E: Attitudes to Religious and Other Proselytizing
• Appendix F: Contemporary Attitudes to Class Inequality
• Appendix G: Conditions of the Working Class
• Select Bibliography