Bleak House
by Anchor
SKU: 123397
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$25.00
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\' most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
