Only available as part of our 3 for £33 Penguin Clothbound Classics collection. 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. 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. See how they achieved the amazing transformation.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. “We tried to make it feel like when you step into this place, you’re stepping back in time.” “We paid a lot of attention to detail,” says Clay.

Convinced of its potential, the Duckworths bought the hall-and-parlor-style structure, had it moved to their ranch in Burnet, and began the painstaking process of transforming it into a cozy 635-square-foot guesthouse for friends and extended family. So when Clay happened upon a two-room Folk Victorian in Austin that had been salvaged by a demolition subcontractor, the tiny home’s character (original decorative moldings, shiplap walls, and old-growth pine floors, for starters) overshadowed the fact that the early-1900s house had seen much better days. Reluctantly, Esther and Ada go with her to visit a poor bricklayers family who live nearby. A charity worker whose zeal unfortunately makes her own sons 'ferocious with discontent,' she describes her activities loudly and at great length. They were plain but full of treasures that somehow fit together.” Pardiggle, accompanied by her five sons, pays a visit to Bleak House. At Bleak House, Esther notices that Richard Carstone has some weaknesses of character yet remains likeable she forms a deep friendship with him as well as with.

Bleak House is the story of the Jarndyce family, who wait in vain to inherit money from a disputed fortune in the settlement of the extremely long-running lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

“I have great memories of my grandparents’ and great-uncle’s old board-and-batten homes in East Texas. Bleak House, novel by British author Charles Dickens, published serially in 185253 and in book form in 1853 and considered to be among the author’s best work. For Texas couple Melissa and Roy Duckworth and their builder son Clay ( Duckworth Custom Homes), the pull of the past was so strong that they spent the better part of three years restoring a rundown turn-of-the-last-century bungalow that many others would have torn down.

A bleak house