Bleak house. By Chas. Dickens.

Paperback, 568 pages

English language

Published Dec. 22, 2005 by Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library.

ISBN:
978-1-4255-6210-6
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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

  • 19th century fiction
  • History
  • History - U.S.
  • History: American
  • USA
  • History / United States / General
  • United States - General