Bleak house
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Bleak house
AUTHOR:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
ISBN:
9780141198354
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Penguin Classics, 2011
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xxxix, 1036 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
ABSTRACT:
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; and, more.
SUBJECT:
| Illegitimate children -- Fiction |
| Guardian and ward -- Fiction |
| Young women -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction |
| Legal stories |
BIBSUMMARY:
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; and, more.