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108,937 ratings5,545 reviews. The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.
Bleak House Full Book Summary. Esther Summerson describes her childhood and says she is leaving for the home of a new guardian, Mr. Jarndyce, along with Ada Clare and Richard Carstone. On the way to the home, called Bleak House, they stop overnight at the Jellybys’ chaotic home.
Apr 29, 2003 · A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
Bleak House, published serially from 1852 to 1853, is a novel by Charles Dickens that explores themes of social class, justice, and the nature of identity. The novel is narrated by Esther Summerson, a young woman who is raised by her godmother and who eventually becomes embroiled in a long-running legal case known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
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A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the...
