"The Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. Showing how a young man's life is transformed by a mysterious series of events - an encounter with an escaped prisoner a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl a fortune from a secret donor - Dickens' late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth, and Pip among his greatest creations. Coralie Bickford-Smiths recent work for Penguin Classics is nothing short of glorious Anna Cole Co. and The Mystery of Edwin Drood are also published in the Penguin English Library. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickenss most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip's journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. His tenth novel, Bleak House delivers a savage indictment of both. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows fog down the river, where it rolls defiled. Print Great Expectations (Penguin English Library) The Penguin English Library Edition of Bleak House by Charles Dickens 'Fog everywhere.
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