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Nancy Holder: Bleak House (1886, Estes and Lauriat)

966 pages

Langue : English

Publié 4 janvier 1886 par Estes and Lauriat.

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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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Sujets

  • Young women
  • Fiction
  • Illegitimate children
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Guardian and ward