Bleak House discussion

Does any one have a favorite edition?

Not my favourite edition - just the only one I know, but my paperback 1994 Everyman edition has all the original illustrations by Phiz.

Bleak House was originally published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853 - those divisions are noted in this edition. So your original readers got three or four chapters only each month (about forty to fifty printed pages), so quite a different reading experience.

Will be sallying forth with a Penguin Classic, black binding -- mind you.

I downloaded the Kindle edition by Penguin, which is very cheap, and has a wonderful Preface by Terry Eagleton.

http://www.amazon.com/Bleak-House-Pen...

And in the UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bleak-House-P...

I just got my Penguin Classics hardcover, along with the Penguin classics ebook that Kall linked to (.99!). I am prepared to read Bleak House in any circumstances! :)

HAHAHAHA! You go, Kris!

That's right -- it's best to be prepared!! :)

Kalliope wrote: "I downloaded the Kindle edition by Penguin, which is very cheap, and has a wonderful Preface by Terry Eagleton.

http://www.amazon.com/Bleak-House-Pen......"

Great recommendation, thanks! Many great features and only 99 cts. Beats the pants off my ePub from Gutenberg.

Kris wrote: "I just got my Penguin Classics hardcover, along with the Penguin classics ebook that Kall linked to (.99!). I am prepared to read Bleak House in any circumstances! :)"

Kris, does the hardcover Penguin have notes?

Yes, it does, Cynthia. When I get home I'll look through it and give you more info about them.

I have a very old Penguin pb with really good notes but I love those hardcovers.

And they are really reasonably priced, too.

I've got the Penguin Classics edition with the Hogarth picture of the frowning judges on it, but it is falling apart after so many reads. I'll have to pick up the new Penguin edition, probably this weekend.

Kris wrote: "I just got my Penguin Classics hardcover, along with the Penguin classics ebook that Kall linked to (.99!). I am prepared to read Bleak House in any circumstances! :)"

Kris,

Is this the hard back you got?

http://www.amazon.com/Bleak-Penguin-C...

Yes, that's it -- it may be the same as the Kindle version....

Kris wrote: "Yes, that's it -- it may be the same as the Kindle version...."

It must be because the editor is also Nicola Bradbury. I may get the nice copy too... how is the paper. I recently bought Van Gogh: The Life in hardback and the paper is awful. I do not see the point of printing hard back art books with porous gray paper...

I got the Barnes & Nobles Classic edition. It is a tad big to download, but it appears to ahve a lot of notes and some of the original illustrations ebook

I posted on this on the General Thread, but I read one more chapter and listened to the Audio version narrated by Hugh Dickson, and I am not sure what am I enjoying most, the text or the audio... Hugh Dickson manages to come up with a different voice for each character.. whether man or woman, whether old or young, whether upper- or lower-class.

http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?...