Bleak House

Description

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

Genres

• Fiction

Series Statement

• Penguin classics

Other Editions

• Bleak HousePenguin Books2003-01-01
• Bleak HouseThe Literary Guild of America, Inc.1953-01-01
• Bleak HouseSignet Classics1964-03-01
• Bleak House (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens)Oxford University Press, USA1987-10-22
• Bleak HouseeBookFictionwise, Inc.2004-01-01
• Bleak HousePenguin Books2005-01-01