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- 1088 pages
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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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Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury, Coralie Bickford-Smith
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Bleak House
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Released
- 2011
- Pages
- 1088
- ISBN10
- 0141198354
- ISBN13
- 9780141198354
- Series
- Real Reads
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Legal Topics, Love, Women, Classics, Murders, Death, 19th century, England, Secrets, Great Britain, English Literature, Coming Of Age, Adapted for Film, Marriage, London, Victorian Era, Poverty, Classicism, Industrialization
- First published
- 1861
- Original title
- Great Expectations
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.