false 227267 0 0 7121880 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1257852506m/7121880.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1257852506s/7121880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7121880-to-the-lighthouse 0.0 0 6765 3.85 49537 3705 227267 4.20 74 13 1927 400891 0140434968 9780140434965 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235764355m/400891.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235764355s/400891.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400891.Bleak_House 4.20 74 Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

‘Perhaps his best novel … when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up’
G. K. Chesterton

‘One of the finest of all English satires’
Terry Eagleton]]> 239579 3.74 208229 10932 227267 4.20 74 13 581597 3.93 1318 180 1853 6418493 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6418493-the-portrait-of-a-lady 0.0 0 An undisputed masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is arguably James's most popular work, and certainly the finest of his early novels. It focuses on Isabel Archer, a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes instead a "house of suffocation."
Portrait of a Lady is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition includes helpful notes on the numerous changes James made between the first edition and the revised New York Edition, reproduced here, an up-to-date bibliography, and a new chronology.]]> 159 3.60 27324 2593 227267 4.20 74 13 1880 477734 0312056575 9780312056575 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477734.Charles_Dickens_Great_Expectations 0.0 0 227267 4.20 74 13 1991 3831554 0312004818 9780312004811 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3831554.An_Annotated_Critical_Bibliography_of_Henry_James 0.0 0 227267 4.20 74 13 1987 4477420 0745006469 9780745006468 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4477420._Great_Expectations_ 0.0 0 227267 4.20 74 13 1990 5010718 071081030X 9780710810304 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5010718.Annotated_Critical_Bibliography_of_Henry_James 0.0 0 227267 4.20 74 13 1986