Best Seller Bleak House

Author: Dickens, Charles, Dickens, Charles

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 25 January 2003 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 1088 pages
196 x 129 x 28 | 740g

‘Perhaps his best novel … when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up’ G. K. ChestertonAs the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, a destitute crossing-sweeper. A savage 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 London slums.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury with a Preface by Terry Eagleton