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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

First Published

2005

Subjects

Fiction
Guardian and ward
Young women
Illegitimate children
Inheritance and succession
Social problems
Translations into French
Social life and customs
Social conditions
English Christmas stories
Classic Literature
Literature
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Young women -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
England, fiction
London (england), fiction
Fiction, historical
English literature
Manners and customs
Classics
LITERARY CRITICISM
European
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Fiction, historical, general
Enfants naturels
Romans, nouvelles
Tutelle et curatelle
Jeunes femmes
Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
Successions et héritages
Fiction, general
Young women, fiction
Fiction, family life, general
Fiction, legal
Fiction, coming of age
Fiction, family life
London (England) -- Fiction
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
Guardian and ward -- Fiction
Illegitimate children -- Fiction
Legal stories
Chang pian xiao shuo
Novela inglesa
Pr4556.a2 i54 2011
823/.8

Description

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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