Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 06/10/2011
ISBN: 9780141198354
Length: 1088 Pages
Dimensions: 204mm x 49mm x 138mm
Weight: 943g
RRP: £14.99
Part of Penguin's 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 Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 06/10/2011
ISBN: 9780141198354
Length: 1088 Pages
Dimensions: 204mm x 49mm x 138mm
Weight: 943g
RRP: £14.99
[Coralie Bickford-Smith's] recent work for Penguin Classics is nothing short of glorious