Bleak House By Charles Dickens (Hardback, 2011)

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Part of Penguin&s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design As the interminable case of Jarndyce & Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery it draws together a disparate group of people Ada & 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; & 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