Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Bleak House / Charles Dickens ; with the original illustrations by Phiz ; introduced by Barbara Hardy - 1st ed - New York : Knopf, c1991 - xlix, 891 p. : ill. ; 22 cm - Everyman's library ; 8 .

The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiii)

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Illegitimate children--Fiction
Guardian and ward--Fiction
Young women--Fiction


London (England)--Fiction


Domestic fiction.
Legal stories.

PR4556 / .A1 1991 PR4556 / .A1 1991

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