Research Catalog

Title

Bleak house / by Charles Dickens with 40 illustrations by 'Phiz' and an introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell.

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Publication

London ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1948]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Phiz, 1815-1882

Description

xxii, 880 pages : illustrations, plates; 19 cm.

Summary

• 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.
• 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 and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens' most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

Series Statement

• Oxford illustrated Dickens
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Works. 1947.

Subject

• Young women > Fiction
• Guardian and ward > Fiction
• Illegitimate children > Fiction
• Inheritance and succession > Fiction
• Guardian and ward
• Illegitimate children
• Inheritance and succession
• Young women
• London (England) > Fiction
• England > London

Genre/Form

• Legal fiction (Literature)
• Domestic fiction.
• Novels.
• Fiction.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens' most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

Call Number

NCW (Dickens, C. Bleak house. 1948)

ISBN

• 0192545035
• 9780192545039

LCCN

49007509

OCLC

1313202

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

Bleak house / by Charles Dickens with 40 illustrations by 'Phiz' and an introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell.

Imprint

London ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1948]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford illustrated Dickens

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Works. 1947.

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Processing Action

committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust

Added Author

Phiz, 1815-1882, ill.

Other Form:

Online version: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak house. London, New York, Oxford University Press [1948] (OCoLC)561667485

Research Call Number

NCW (Dickens, C. Bleak house. 1948)