I think it is the one I have read most often. I prefer Dickens' long novels (the ones he published monthly) to his shorter (weekly) ones (the ones that are usually read in schools, annoyingly). They tend to have a wider scope, and present quite complicated interconnections between people in different segments of society.

I disagree that it is uneven. Or rather, it depends on what you mean by it. Esther's narrative voice is most definitely more annoying than the omniscient narrator, but it offers an important perspective and contrast. In fact, the interplay between the two is one of my favourite aspects of this novel (compared to, say, the monological David Copperfield or Great Expectations).

The human combustion is glorious.