| Description |
xxii, 880 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
New Oxford illustrated Dickens |
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Oxford illustrated Dickens |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Works. 1947.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Works. Selections. 1966.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
With their estate entangled in an interminable legal case, the young wards of the court Richard Carstone and Ada Clare are taken into the benevolent care of the kindly John Jarndyce. Ada's companion, the gentle and good-hearted Esther Summerson, is devoted to the old man and, although she loves another, becomes betrothed to him. But behind Esther's supposed orphan past lies a dark secret that leads tragically to deceit, blackmail and murder. And as the endless lawsuit erodes their inheritance, the happiness that Richard and Ada have found in each other is brought into desperate jeopardy |
| Notes |
M copy 1951 reprint |
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Also issued online |
| Subject |
Guardian and ward -- Fiction.
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Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
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Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
London (England) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106611
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Phiz, 1815-1882, illustrator
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| LC no. |
49007509 |
| ISBN |
0192545035 |
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