Bleak House (Record no. 3406)
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| fixed length control field | 01510nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0140434968 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.8 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Dickens, Charles |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Bleak House |
| Statement of responsibility | Charles Dickens |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Penguin Books |
| Year of publication | 1996 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxxi,1036 Pages |
| Other physical details | 20x13 cm |
| -- | PB |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Penguin Classics |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Esther, the illegitimate child of Lady Dedlock and Captain Hawdon, is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce and lives with him at Bleak House. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Index and Notes. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is transformed by the resilience of human |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | England--London |
| -- | Illegitimate children |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Edited and With An Introduction by Bradbury Nicola ; Original Illustrations by Browne Hablôt K. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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