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Bleak House : an authoritative and annotated text, illustrations, a note on the text, genesis and composition, backgrounds, criticism

Author: Charles Dickens; George H Ford; Sylvère Monod
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1977.
Series: A Norton critical edition
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction., Legal stories.
Named Person: Charles Dickens
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Dickens; George H Ford; Sylvère Monod
ISBN: 0393043746 : 9780393043747 0393093328 9780393093322
OCLC Number: 2984244
Description: xx, 986 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series Title: A Norton critical edition
Responsibility: Charles Dickens ; edited by George Ford, Sylvère Monod.

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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.

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