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Charles Dickens: Bleak House (2011, Broadview Press)

829 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2011 by Broadview Press.

ISBN:
978-1-55111-931-1
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OCLC Number:
607973725

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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

  • Young women
  • Fiction
  • Illegitimate children
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Guardian and ward

Places

  • England