# Bleak House

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- Book: [Bleak House](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house) ([Bleak House.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house.md))
- Authors: [Charles Dickens](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-835-4
- Pages: 1088
- Published: 2011-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.