Item #72 Bleak House / A Child's History of England. Charles Dickens.

Bleak House / A Child's History of England

@ 1870. Fred Barnard & John McL. Ralston. Puck Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 6"x8"; Dark navy boards & spine; gold gilt lettering on spine; No publisher or year listed; Illustrators for both; F. Barnard (1846 - 1896) has 57 in Bleak House which is 440 pgs. & John McL. Ralston (1868 - 1889) has 15 which has 190 pgs. in A Child's History of England. Bleak House frontispiece of Dickens by Marleowehend 1870; Paste downs of light brown foliage on cream background. Fraying to crown and heel of spine. A Child's History of England includes Table of the Reigns Begining with King Alfred the Great; Chronological Table, and Table of Contents; List of Illustrations. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slight toning, unmarked, Not x-library. Collectible - VeryGood. Item #72

"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." Goodreads 4.01

A Child's History of England
If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, --broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water..." Goodreads 3.77.

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