Bleak House By Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1993)

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With an Introduction & Notes by Doreen Roberts University of Kent at Canterbury Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Bleak House is one of Dickens& finest achievements establishing his reputation as a serious & mature novelist as well as a brilliant comic writer It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection & an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society Its representations of a great city&s underworld & of the law&s corruption & delay draw upon the author&s personal knowledge & experience But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy cosmic farce & tragic ruin In a unique creative experiment Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine Esther Summerson who is psychologically interesting in her own right & an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements & challenges hers