Paperback, 912 pages
English language
Published May 26, 2005 by Barnes & Noble Classics.
Bleak House (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Nancy Holder
2 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Fiction
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Literature: Classics
- Classics
- Fiction / Classics
- LITERATURE - LIT CLASSICS TRD PB
- Guardian and ward
- Illegitimate children
- Young women