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Genre/Form: | Didactic fiction Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Dickens; Norman Page; Hablot Knight Browne |
ISBN: | 0140430636 9780140430639 9780141439723 0141439726 |
OCLC Number: | 221357 |
Awards: | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
Description: | [1], 965 pages illustrations, portrait 19 cm. |
Series Title: | Penguin English library. |
Responsibility: | edited by Norman Page; with an introduction by J. Hillis Miller, and 27 original illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'). |
Abstract:
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.
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