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Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Label
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Bleak House
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
774593370
Responsibility statement
Charles Dickens
Summary
In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance--complicated by murder--have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as 'the family curse.' The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens's satirical wrath
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