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: Mr Tulkinghorn, Joshua Smallweed, Richard Carstone, William Guppy, Ada Clare, Harold Skimpole, Caroline Jellyby, Mr George, Mr Bucket, Charlotte Neckett, Lady Dedlock, Mr Snagsby, Jo, John Jarndyce, Esther Summerson, Allan Woodcourt, Sir Leicester Dedlock
genres: Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 107003
places: England
publisher: Tantor Media