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Emma Summerson
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- 1. Episode 1 Oct 27, 2005
- Esther Summerson is sent to live with her rich guardian at Bleak House.
- 2. Episode 2 Oct 28, 2005
- Tulkinghorn persists with his inquiry into Lady Dedlock's past.
- 3. Episode 3 Nov 3, 2005
- Ada confides in Esther that she and Richard are in love and plan to get engaged.
Dickens locates the fictional Bleak House in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where he wrote some of the book. An 18th-century house in Folly Lane, St Albans, has been identified as a possible inspiration for the titular house in the story since the time of the book's publication and was known as Bleak House for many years. Adaptations
- Charles Dickens, George Harry Ford, Sylvère Monod
- 1852
Jun 14, 2024 · Bleak House is a novel by British author Charles Dickens, published serially in 1852–53 and in book form in 1853. It is considered to be among his best novels. It is the story of the Jarndyce family, who wait in vain to inherit money in the settlement of an extremely long-running lawsuit.
Bleak House: With Anna Maxwell Martin, Carey Mulligan, Denis Lawson, Gillian Anderson. A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
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- 2006-01-22
- Crime, Drama
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Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name, which was originally published in 1852–53 as itself a print serialisation over 20 months.
- Serial Drama
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.
- Charles Dickens, George Harry Ford, Sylvère Monod
- 1852
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.
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Bleak House was the ninth novel published by Charles Dickens, appearing in serialized form in twenty instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. Critics generally agree that this is one of the Dickens' most remarkable novels and his most complete.
