Bleak House
Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1180
subjects: illegitimate children, guardian and ward, young women, illegitimacy, london (england), england, guardian-ward relationship [X], inheritance and succession [X], bildungsromans, mystery fiction [X], social problems, didactic fiction, trusts and trustees, domestic fiction, didactic fiction