Bleak House by Charles Dickens
"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens is a novel published between 1852 and 1853. At its center lies Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an endless legal case in the Court of Chancery involving conflicting wills. The story follows Esther Summerson, an orphan with a mysterious past, and Lady Dedlock, an aristocrat harboring a dangerous secret. As a lawyer investigates Lady Dedlock's hidden connection to a deceased pauper, multiple lives become entangled in the grinding machinery
of the law, leading to revelation, illness, murder, and tragedy in fog-shrouded London. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 |
|---|---|
| Title | Bleak House |
| Original Publication | [S.l. : s.n.], 1853 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House |
| Credits | Donald Lainson, Toronto, Canada and revised by Thomas Berger and Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | London (England) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | Young women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Bildungsromans |
| Subject | Guardian and ward -- Fiction |
| Subject | Illegitimate children -- Fiction |
| Subject | Legal stories |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 1023 |
| Release Date | Aug 1, 1997 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jul 14, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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