Pan Macmillan Bleak house

Barbara Hardy's introduction makes the Everyman's library edition the one to get, in my opinion. Clearly a very insightful and eloquent critic. If I were to buy a second copy, I'd get the Oxford World Classics, but the font is too small, so I'd get that on the kindle.As always with Everyman's library, it's a beautiful book, and a pleasure to read. Font could be bigger, but it's readable enough as is.I won't review the novel itself, if you are interested in reading Dickens or similar classics, the only real question is which edition.

The book was very good 👍

Very beautiful copy. Will be a treat to read

The book is beautiful and at first sight caught my attention. I am glad that I ordered this from Oxford worlds classics. Typically thick books put me off if pages are not opened properly due to binding and all. But this book is awesome. Pages are good. Looking forward to starting the time travel by reading Bleak House.Highly recommended to purchase.

These comments concern the illustrations in this Oxford edition not the novel itself.In this edition, in comparison to a previous edition I own, the figures which are predominantly dark are too dark. For example, the frontispiece shown above is basically a tree and blackness where you should be able to see a mansion in the background. You can hardly see the dilapidated houses in the illustration called Tom-all--alone's, and you can just barely make out the lonely figure in the illustration of the same name. The Mausoleum at Chesney Wold is reduced to a black triangle and the illustration called Night depicts a very dark night indeed.I don't know whether my copy is an exception, but considering how important the illustrations of Dickens' novels are to the overall pleasure in reading them, it is a shame if they are spoilt by a bad printing.