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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.

企鹅精美精装经典系列的一部分，由屡获殊荣的Coralie Bickford Smith设计，这些令人愉快和收藏的版本是用高品质的彩色触觉布装订的，图案上印有铝箔。当没完没了的雅代斯和雅代斯的案子在大法官法庭上艰难地审理时，它吸引了一群不同的人：艾达和理查德·克莱尔，他们的遗产正逐渐被法律费用吞噬；埃丝特·萨默森，一个受法院监护的人，他们的出身是一个不断加深的谜团；威胁律师图尔金霍恩；法官坚定的探长巴克，甚至乔，一个穷困潦倒的小过路清洁工。《荒凉的房子》是狄更斯最雄心勃勃的小说之一，它对一个腐朽到核心的社会进行了野蛮但常常是滑稽的控诉，范围从贵族的客厅延伸到伦敦最贫穷的贫民窟。