Bleak House
$23.14
- Paperback
1088 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2003
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439726 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1088 |
| Edition: | 1st Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2003 |
| Weight: | 724g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 49mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“Perhaps Bleak House is his best novel… . When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up.” G. K. Chesterton
“Perhaps Bleak House is his best novel… . When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up.” —G. K. Chesterton
About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist before establishing his reputation as a novelist with PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.
Nicola Bradbury is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading.
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