Bleak House (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141198354 ISBN 13: 9780141198354

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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[Coralie Bickford-Smith's] recent work for Penguin Classics is nothing short of glorious (Anna Cole Co.)

Book Description:

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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141198354
• ISBN 13: 9780141198354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1088