Bleak House - Charles Dickens - 1953 The Literary Guild vintage HB drugs shrank from the gaze of

shrank from the gaze of a creature toadlike in his venomous stealth

'"—New York Press

say at once

The book begins: Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night

romance and adventure

Bleak House - Charles Dickens - 1953 The Literary Guild vintage HB drugs shrank from the gaze ofCondition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. See images for the condition of this book. Blurb: 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;