Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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's most ambitious novels with a range that
extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
