Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0140621202
- ISBN 13
- 9780140621204
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Dickens's most wide-ranging and symbolic novel, Bleak House is set in the world of Chancery and focuses in particular on the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
The case, which was originally brought to settle a dispute over a will, has been running at court for generations and has used up a great deal of health and wealth in its course. Richard Carstone and Ada Clare have been made wards of court and live with John Jarndyce at Bleak house while they await the verdict. During that time they marry, always expecting their fortunes to improve...
Also living at Bleak House is Esther Summerson, a young woman of unknown origins. Tulkinghorn, the cunning lawyer of Sir Leicester Dedlock, has his suspicions as to her true parentage, however, and only death can stop him from making them known.
With its humour and pathos, its brilliant satire and its depiction of the Victorian world in microcosm, Bleak House is considered to be one of Dickens's finest achievements.
Synopsis
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by omniscient narrator.
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- Bookseller
- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2
- Title
- Bleak House
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- George Elgar Hicks
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140621202
- ISBN 13
- 9780140621204
- Publisher
- Penguin Popular Classicss
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 808
- Keywords
- Literature