Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 creator text utu 1997 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House Release date is 1997-08-01 Donald Lainson, Toronto, Canada and revised by Thomas Berger and Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. Originally published: S.l.: s.n., 1853 London (England) -- Fiction Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Young women -- Fiction Domestic fiction Bildungsromans Guardian and ward -- Fiction Illegitimate children -- Fiction Legal stories PR S.l.: s.n., 1853 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1023 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1023 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133039.0 1023