| Genre: | Fiction |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | November 16, 2011 |
| Edition: | 4th |
Hardcover | |
| ISBN13: | 9780141198354 |
| ISBN10: | 0141198354 |
| Pages: | 1088 |
| Dimensions: | 5.91 x 8.66 x 0.98 inches |
| Weight: | 929.86 g |
About the Book
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.