Bleak House (Penguin Cloth Bound Classics) Dickens Charles; Bradbury Nicola; Eagleton Terry; Brown Hablot K. and Bickford-Smith Coralie

Part of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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 Dickenss most ambitious novels with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.