Physical description

Bleak House.
Author: Charles Dickens.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall Ltd, London.
Date: 1925. (See note section this document for more information on Edition).
Cloth hardcover with title on spine in gold lettering, Front cover has a paper stick on title. The spine has a Library label.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT, FIC, DIC.
Front fly cover has Publisher details and title.
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service.

Summary

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era, famous for vivid characters, social criticism, and stories that were first published in serial form. He began as a journalist, rose to enormous popularity during his lifetime, and wrote major works such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens’s major novels, a sprawling, multi plot story built around the endless Court of Chancery lawsuit known as “Jarndyce and Jarndyce” and its ruinous effect on several families. It is widely regarded as among his finest and most complex works, central to any serious study of his fiction.