Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens
Penguin presents the companion book to the “Masterpiece Theatre” miniseries starring Gillian Anderson (T”he House of Mirth, The X-Files”). This stunning production features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies (“Bridget Jones’s Diary”). Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society…..Read More
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