Bleak House

Dickens, Charles

ISBN 10: 0141804637 ISBN 13: 9780141804637

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2003

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist before establishing his reputation as a novelist with PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141804637
• ISBN 13: 9780141804637
• Rilegatura: Audio CD