![]() ![]() The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. ![]() ![]() It is classic crime fiction at its most enduring and well-loved best.Show more It is down to Detective Inspector Bucket - the first ever detective in a British novel - to solve the labyrinthine mystery.From the peaceful countryside aristocracy to the starving of the dank London streets from the legal profession and its hangers-on, to its numerous poor litigants from philanthropist Jarndyce to orphan Esther and parasitic Skimpole, "Bleak House" reveals the vast complex of relationships in multi-layered Victorian society. When, one day, Lady Dedlock faints upon recognizing the handwriting in one of the documents pertaining to the case, her sinister lawyer, Tulkinghorn, immediately senses a hidden secret - and an opportunity for blackmail.But he is playing a dangerous game, and he is found dead: the victim of murder most horrid. But how many know it was the first detective novel too? Introducing "Crime Classics", from Atlantic Books.Jarndyce versus Jarndyce - a dispute over a vast fortune left by an intestate miser - has occupied the Court of Chancery for years. Everyone knows that Dicken's "Bleak House" is a literary classic. ![]()
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