Bleak House (Penguin Classics S.)
<p>'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote <i>Bleak House</i> he had grown up' G. K. Chesterton<br /><br />As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, a destitute crossing-sweeper. A savage indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, <i>Bleak House</i> is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing-rooms of the aristocracy to the London slums.<br /><br />Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury with a Preface by Terry Eagleton</p>