Bleak House

836 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1985 by Modern Library.

ISBN:
978-0-394-60520-3
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OCLC Number:
11469524

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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.

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Subjects

  • Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
  • Guardian and ward -- Fiction.
  • Young women -- Fiction.
  • London (England) -- Fiction.