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Bleak House
Charles Dickens

Bleak House

Penguin (25 Dec 2012)
9780141199092
| Paperback
1083 pages | 51 x 200 mm | English
$ 9.99 | Value: $ 9.99
Dewey 823.8

Subject

  • England - Social Conditions - Fiction
  • Illegitimate Children - Fiction. - England

Plot

Bleak House is Dickens's most enigmatic and masterly novel; a savage, blackly comic indictment of a legal system that devours the innocent and a society that is rotten to the core, from upper-class drawing rooms to foggy London slums. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the courts, it threatens to destroy everyone in its wake, from Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually consumed by costs, to Esther Summerson, whose parentage is a deepening and scandalous mystery.