Bleak House

Charles Dickens; Professor of English Stephen Gill
Oxford University Press, USA
 9780199536313
0-19-953631-7

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections--between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful.

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