TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens, Charles
AU  - Gill, Stephen, ed.
TI  - Bleak House 
T2  - Oxford World's Classics
SN  - 0192834010
U1  - 823.8 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Oxford University Press
KW  - English Literature
KW  - Illegitimate children
KW  - England--London
KW  - Young women
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Guardian and ward
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - England
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social problems
N2  - Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation
ER  -