Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
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The English equity court of the nineteenth-century is satirized in Dickens' tale about the suit of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce.
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Huang liang shan zhuang: Bleak house : quan yi ben
2009, Chang jiang wen yi chu ban she
in Chinese
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7535440479 9787535440471
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Originally published: New York : Norton, 1977.
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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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