Part of Penguin's Clothbound Classics series, *Bleak House* features high-quality cloth covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The novel follows the complex case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which entangles various characters, including Ada and Richard Clare, Esther Summerson, lawyer Tulkinghorn, Inspector Bucket, and Jo, a poor crossing-sweeper. Dickens' *Bleak House* is a powerful, often comic critique of a corrupt society, spanning from aristocratic drawing rooms to London’s slums.