{"product_id":"bleak-house-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393093322","title":"Bleak House: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: WW Norton \u0026amp; Co\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: WW Norton \u0026amp; Co\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: English Literature, \u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Backgrounds\" offers all of Dickens' correspondence about \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e as well as contextual materials that document the Victorian controversy over pollution, a theme central to the novel, and present contemporary attitudes toward the government, the courts, and the police, to enhance the setting of the story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso featured are several hundred annotations which fully elucidate for today's readers the allusions and topical references in this remarkably allusive Victorian masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEspecially helpful is a clear exposition of the nature of law procedures in the Court of Chancery, which is crucial to an understanding of the central action of the story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Critical essays\" reprinted here include interpretations by G. K. Chesterton, J. Hillis Miller, George Ford, A. O. J. Cockshut, W. J. Harvey, H. M. Daleski, and Ian Ousby.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46290380882071,"sku":"9780393093322","price":1756.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780393093322.webp?v=1769304357","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bleak-house-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393093322","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}