Bleak house
By: by Charles Dickens ; with forty illustrations by 'Phiz' and an introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell.
Contributors: Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969.
Series: Oxford Illustrated Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Oxford (England); New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 880
Subjects: Social problems -- England -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: With their estate entangled in an interminable legal case, the young wards of the court Richard Carstone and Ada Clare are taken into the benevolent care of the kindly John Jarndyce. Ada's companion, the gentle and good-hearted Esther Summerson, is devoted to the old man and, although she loves another, becomes betrothed to him. But behind Esther's supposed orphan past lies a dark secret that leads tragically to deceit, blackmail and murder. And as the endless lawsuit erodes their inheritance, the happiness that Richard and Ada have found in each other is brought into desperate jeopardy.