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Bleak House
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By
Charles Dickens, Barbara Hardy (Introduction by)
$23.75
Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Hardback, 880 pages | | Other Information: | 39 b&w illustrations | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 26 September 1991 |
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it. |
ReviewsBleak House is such a natural for audio that it comes as no surprise to read in Peter Ackroyd's biography of Dickens that he himself read it aloud to Wilkie Collins and his own family. No matter how good he was as a readerÄand he did go on to present public readings regularly after thisÄDickens could not have performed better than Robert Whitfield does here. With a motley cast of characters to challenge the skill of any narrator, his brilliant dramatizations range from a homeless street urchin to an arrogant barrister, from a canny old windbag to a high-minded heroine who deserves the happy ending Dickens affords her. Whitfield is also as persuasive as the indignant voice of the author himself, attacking both the injustice of the law and the cruel indifference of society. This may be one of the most Dickensian novels Dickens ever wrote. Highly recommended.ÄJo Carr, Sarasota, FL Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
| Publisher: | Everyman's Library | | ISBN: | 1857150082 |
| EAN: | 9781857150087 | | Dimensions: | 21.0 x 4.0 x 13.0 centimeters (0.89 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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