Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
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'Perhaps Bleak House is his best novel... When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K. Chesterton.'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 neighbours 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.
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Fiction, Guardian and ward, Young women, Illegitimate children, Inheritance and succession, Social problems, Translations into French, Social life and customs, Social conditions, English Christmas stories, Classic Literature, Literature, open_syllabus_project, Young women -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, English literature, Manners and customs, Classics, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Fiction, historical, general, Enfants naturels, Romans, nouvelles, Tutelle et curatelle, Jeunes femmes, Bleak House (Dickens, Charles), Successions et héritages, Fiction, general, Young women, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, legal, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, London (England) -- Fiction, Inheritance and succession -- Fiction, Bildungsromans, Guardian and ward -- Fiction, Illegitimate children -- Fiction, Legal stories, Chang pian xiao shuo, Novela inglesa, Pr4556.a2 i54 2011, 823/.8People
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19th century, Jin daiShowing 17 featured editions. View all 375 editions?
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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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