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  • Published: 9 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141198354
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 1088
  • RRP: $40.00

Bleak House





Dickens's sweeping family saga, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

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.

  • Published: 9 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141198354
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 1088
  • RRP: $40.00

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