Bleak house
(2009, original release: 1853)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2009
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (39hr., 30 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781400129089 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT10756906, 1400129087 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 10756906
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by David Case
Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set against the foggy backdrop of the Court of Chancery. Mixing romance, mystery, comedy, and satire, Bleak House limits the suffering caused by the intricate inefficiency of the law
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