Charles Dickens

Bleak House (Annotated)

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Produktbeschreibung

The definitive edition.Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles Dickens Remastered for easy reading Bleak House tells us of the story of the Jarndyce family, who are waiting in vain to inherit a small fortune that will be the settlement of a long-running legal dispute amongst members of their family. Esther Summerson tells us about how she is joining the house of Mr. Jarndyce, along with her friends Ada Clare and Richard Carstone. Once they arrive at Bleak House they meet John Jarndyce and Mrs. Dedalock, their remote family who are involved in a never-ending legal dispute that doesn't have any resolution in sight. They are about to become engaged, intimately tying their destinies together. It will change their lives forever. How will the dispute be resolved? What will become of Esther and her friends? Learn more by reading this thrilling story! Get your copy of this timeless classic today!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sastrugi Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 718
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1146g
• ISBN-13: 9781649221025
• ISBN-10: 1649221029
• Artikelnr.: 61287821

Autorenporträt

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.