Bleak House

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Peter Ackroyd: Bleak House (1991, Heinemann (Txt))

Paperback, 960 pages

English language

Published April 4, 1991 by Heinemann (Txt).

ISBN:
978-0-7493-0765-3
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OCLC Number:
24711556

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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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  • 19th century fiction
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism