![]() This edition follows the first book edition of 1853, and includes all the original illustrations by 'Phiz', as well as appendices on the Chancery and spontaneous combustion. 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. ![]() ![]() Charles Dickens's masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal systemĪs 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. ![]()
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