Bleak House

Charles Dickens's sprawling masterpiece revolves around an endless court case that consumes everyone it touches, binding a foggy London of lords, orphans and lawyers in one of fiction's great…

At a glance A lawsuit so old that no one alive remembers how it began grinds on through the London… What it's about Bleak House turns on the interminable Chancery suit of Jarndyce and… Narrated in part by the gentle Esther Summerson and in part by an all-seeing eye, it… Themes Dickens mounts a furious attack on the delays and cruelties of the legal system…

Bleak House turns on the interminable Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce and the vast web of lives caught in its orbit.

About this book Charles Dickens threads satire, mystery, and social critique through the endless Jarndyce lawsuit, revealing how chancery corruption distorts lives across Victorian England.