BLEAK HOUSE

Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812. He is the author of such Classics as Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield. In later works such as Bleak House and Little Dorrit Dickenss social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. His last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood was never completed and he died on 9 June 1870.Part of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the awardwinning Coralie BickfordSmith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in highquality 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 crossingsweeper. A savage but often comic indictment of a society that is rotten to the core Bleak House is one of Dickenss most ambitious novels with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.[Coralie BickfordSmiths] recent work for Penguin Classics is nothing short of glorious