Bleak House
Subtitle: an authoritative and annotated text, illustrations, a note on the text, genesis and composition, backgrounds, criticism
By: Charles Dickens ; edited by George Ford, Sylvère Monod.
Contributors: Ford, George Harry, 1914-; Monod, Sylvère, 1921-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 986
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Guardian and ward -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; London (England) -- 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 985-986.