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Bleak House - Penguin Classics
Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury

New Edition

Paperback (27 Mar 2003)


Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up G. K. Chesterton

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 Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, a destitute crossing-sweeper. A savage indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickenss most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing-rooms of the aristocracy to the London slums.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury with a Preface by Terry Eagleton


Product details

Format Paperback | 1088 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 45mm | 735g
Publication date 01 May 2003
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
Illustrations note w. ill.
ISBN10 0141439726
ISBN13 9780141439723
Bestsellers rank 60,407