Bleak House - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141199091 ISBN 13: 9780141199092

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2012

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

'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...'

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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Biografía del autor:

Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His many books include Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141199091
• ISBN 13: 9780141199092
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1104