num_pages: 818
description: Bleak House , Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections—between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.
language: English
title: Bleak House
titlecomplete: Bleak House
characters: Mr Tulkinghorn, Mr Bucket, Allan Woodcourt, William Guppy, Harold Skimpole, John Jarndyce, Charlotte Neckett, Ada Clare, Richard Carstone, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Esther Summerson, Caroline Jellyby, Lady Dedlock, Mr George, Jo, Joshua Smallweed, Mr Snagsby
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 107004
places: England
publisher: Bantam Books