Bleak House: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Bleak House is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Dickens, Charles (1812–1870).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens is a novel published between 1852 and 1853. At its center lies Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an endless legal case in the Court of Chancery involving conflicting wills. The story follows Esther Summerson, an orphan with a mysterious past, and Lady Dedlock, an aristocrat harboring a dangerous secret. As a lawyer investigates Lady Dedlock's hidden connection to a deceased pauper, multiple lives become entangled in the grinding machinery of the law, leading to revelation, illness, murder, and tragedy in fog-shrouded London.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Bleak House
- Author credits: Dickens, Charles (1812–1870)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Bildungsromans
- Domestic fiction
- Guardian and ward -- Fiction
- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Legal stories
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: Novels
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