Bleak House
Charles Dickens's masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal systemAs 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 nov…
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Weitere Autoren: Bradbury, Nicola (Hrsg.) / Bradbury, Nicola (Einf.) / Eagleton, Terry (Vorwort v.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-143972-3
- EAN: 9780141439723
- Produktnummer: 1199330
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 1088 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D5.5 cm 749 g
- Abbildungen: s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 749
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Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist before establishing his reputation as a novelist with PICKWICK PAPERS (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Nicola Bradbury is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading.
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