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Bleak House: A Classic Mystery of Law, Secrets, and Inheritance
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515426790
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 780
Weight: 2.88
Height: 1.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bleak House is Charles Dickens's great novel of secrets, inheritance, murder, social decay, and a legal system so tangled that it consumes the lives of everyone who touches it. At the center of the book is the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a lawsuit that has dragged through the Court of Chancery for generations until justice itself has become almost meaningless. Around that fog-bound case gather orphans, aristocrats, lawyers, clerks, servants, detectives, debtors, blackmailers, and the lost souls of Victorian London.
First published in serial form from 1852 to 1853, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious and powerful novels. It combines social satire, Gothic atmosphere, mystery, domestic drama, and legal indictment, moving between Esther Summerson's intimate narration and a darker, panoramic vision of London wrapped in fog, disease, secrecy, and moral corruption. The murder of Mr. Tulkinghorn and the investigation by Inspector Bucket give the novel one of the earliest major detective plots in English fiction, making it a natural fit for readers of classic mystery as well as Victorian literature.
Readers who enjoy Dickens, classic crime, legal drama, Victorian fiction, Gothic atmosphere, and large-scale social novels will find Bleak House one of the essential works of the nineteenth century. It is both a devastating attack on institutional delay and a gripping story of hidden parentage, ruined lives, dangerous knowledge, and the human cost of systems that exist to serve themselves.
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