Fog everywhere. Fog up the river,where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river,where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes,fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.
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.
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Credited by some with inventing the detective novel and one of the most popular novelists of his dayCharles Dickensremains one of the best-loved novelists in the English language,whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books,includingOliver Twist,Great Expectations,A Tale of Two Cities,David CopperfieldandThe Pickwick Papers,have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141198354Number of pages: 1088Weight: 943 gDimensions: 204 x 138 x 51 mm
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A towering figure in the development of the novel,Charles Dickens was a British writer responsible for some of the best-loved works in the English language,including Oliver Twist,David Copperfield,A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations.
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