Bleak House
- Editore:
Penguin Books Ltd
- Collana:
- Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Illustratore:
- Brown Hablot K., Bickford-Smith Coralie
- EAN:
9780141198354
- ISBN:
0141198354
- Pagine:
- 1088
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Libro Bleak House di Charles Dickens
Trama libro
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's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
