Bleak House (English Library) - Softcover

Bleak House

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 965 pages. spine faded, text tanned, name on inside coverThe complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are s et 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. ?Jarndyce and Jarndyce? is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can rem ember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found the ir fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbo urs are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But wh ile the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other mor e dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, black mail and murder. The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brillian ce, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generat ional lawsuit?and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespea rean. Artikel-Nr. 3339am

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