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Bleak House Mass market paperbound - 1964

by Charles Dickens

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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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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. Jarndyce and Jardyce is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbors are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, blackmail, and murder. This highly critical look at the flaws of the British judiciary system contains the illustrations by Phiz that are found in the original editions.

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  • Title Bleak House
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Classics
  • Publication date March 1, 1964
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780451511164 / 0451511166
  • Age range 17 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 12 - 12
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Bleak House

by Dickens, Charles

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