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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
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Held to be Dickens' finest novel, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly, but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th-century English legal system. This novel set the standard for modern day legal thrillers.

Public Domain (P)2013 Trout Lake Media Classics Law

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What a team, I’ve listened to this a number of times, the audible bookmarks is a brilliant feature too, I have many favourite scenes.
Can’t recommend it highly enough.

Dickens creates the characters, Peter Bachelor brings them to life

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Another great classic book by Charles dickens. Would recommend all of his stories to anyone

Classic

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dowloaded 4 large audio files but none were playable on Audible or Windows Media. Can I have my money back?

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really cannot recommend this recording, very poor performance, it's one monotonous drawl, completely emotionless and could have been done better by a computer

terrible performance

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I have enjoyed other performances by Batchelor but Im afraid for this book he is totally wrong. Large parts of the book is written in a womans voice and he is completely unable to pull this off. Different characters were hard to distinguish and the text became dense and tedious.
Give this one a miss.

poor choice of reader

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