Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens
Edition: 1st Vintage Classics ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books; Vintage
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 866
ISBN-13: 9780307947192
Subjects: Young women; Fiction; Illegitimate children; Inheritance and succession; Guardian and ward
Description: "In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance--complicated by murder--have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as 'the family curse.' The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes  the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens's satirical wrath."--P. [2] of cover.