SUMMARY: Considered one of Dickens's greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peopled with both comic and tragic characters, including one of literature's first detectives, this classic celebrates the
Bleak House
โ Scribed by Charles Dickens
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Classics
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 7 MB
- Edition
- [Barnes & Noble edition] /
- Category
- Fiction
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