Bleak House
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 823/.8
- bildungsromans
- bleak house (dickens, charles)
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- chang pian xiao shuo
- classic literature
- classics
- domestic fiction
- enfants naturels
- england, fiction
- english christmas stories
- english, irish, scottish, welsh
- english literature
- european
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, legal
- guardian and ward
- guardian and ward -- fiction
- history
- illegitimate children
- illegitimate children -- fiction
- inheritance and succession
- inheritance and succession -- fiction
- jeunes femmes
- legal stories
- literary criticism
- literature
- london (england) -- fiction
- london (england), fiction
- long now manual for civilization
- manners and customs
- novela inglesa
- open_syllabus_project
- pr4556.a2 i54 2011
- romans, nouvelles
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- social problems
- successions et héritages
- translations into french
- tutelle et curatelle
- young women
- young women -- fiction
- young women, fiction