Bleak House

394 pages

English language

Published Dec. 28, 2012 by Creative Media Partners, LLC, Nabu Press.

ISBN:
978-1-248-71857-5
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As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

41 editions

Subjects

  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • London (england), fiction
  • Young women, fiction
  • Fiction, family life, general
  • Fiction, legal
  • Fiction, coming of age