description: A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions. Here is the firm, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the young orphan and ward of court Ester Summerson (who tells much of the story). As always, it is the skilled pen of Dickens himself that creates the momentum with his acute eye for both individual characters and their traits, and the backdrop of Victorian London.
language: English
title: Bleak House
titlecomplete: Bleak House
characters: Lady Dedlock, Mr Tulkinghorn, Allan Woodcourt, Esther Summerson, Caroline Jellyby, John Jarndyce, Jo, Mr Bucket, Ada Clare, William Guppy, Joshua Smallweed, Harold Skimpole, Charlotte Neckett, Mr George, Mr Snagsby, Richard Carstone, Sir Leicester Dedlock
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 107002
places: England
publisher: Naxos Audiobooks