Bleak House
- First published
- 1853
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"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.
- London (England)
- Inheritance and succession
- Young women
- Domestic fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Guardian and ward
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #1023. Bleak House on Wikipedia.
