# Bleak House

By Charles Dickens.

"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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: London (England) -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Bildungsromans; Guardian and ward -- Fiction; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Legal stories

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Bleak House](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/53) by Charles Dickens (43 h 30 min, English)
- [Bleak House (version 3)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/6082) by Charles Dickens (39 h 25 min, English)
- [Bleak House (version 4)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/10764) by Charles Dickens (34 h 5 min, English)

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