![]() ![]() The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. 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. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs.'Īs 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. Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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