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  • Many consider this to be Dickens best, and though I definitely haven't read enough of his works to put a superlative on this book, it was quite good. The book presents an excellent cross-section of societal Victorian characters, from the high to the low to the middle. These caricatures are what ma ... Continue

    Many consider this to be Dickens best, and though I definitely haven't read enough of his works to put a superlative on this book, it was quite good. The book presents an excellent cross-section of societal Victorian characters, from the high to the low to the middle. These caricatures are what makes the work great more so than the story itself. Though I would never recommend Bleak House as a first Dickens book for anyone to read, it is excellent for anyone who has previously tasted, and enjoyed, his style.

    

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  • I hated Esther Summerson. She was a horrible narrator. Completely ruined my enjoyment of this novel which, otherwise, had interesting characterizations and the extraordinary invention of the Circumlocution office.

    

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• ― guaddess said on May 30, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Published in 1853 by Bradbury and Evans. Leather; copy in very good condition. Upper cover/preliminary leaves detached; slight exterior rubbing. First one-volume book issue (Podeschi A131); illustrated by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Bound in full dark-brown morocco, stamped gilt and blind; plain endpapers, green marbled edges. Very good except for detaching of upper cover; interior in very good shape. Scarce.

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