Bleak House

Charles Dickens

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781513266046, 9781513220727
• eBook ISBN: 9781513273068
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Regarded as one of the author's finest and most ambitious works, Bleak House all but overflows with the imaginative inventiveness unique to Dickens as it holds the reader fast to his most involved and involving plot.

First published in 1853, Bleak House is a Victorian epic with a court case of fiendish difficulty at its center. The legal system's inability to resolve a will effects the lives of a broad swath of interconnected characters, revealing secrets and drawing out emotions ranging from selfless love to murderous hatred. The author mercilessly satirizes British law of his era while playing out a masterful chain of linked sub-plots. Esther Summerson, the only female narrator the author ever employed, is accompanied by a cavalcade of vivid, living characters as the story sweeps across Victorian society. Comic moments blend with tragic turns, hidden motives and relations come to light, and murder is committed before the question of inheritance is resolved. Arguably a proto-legal thriller and containing a genuine murder mystery, Bleak House is much more than that, and, in truth, much more than most any novel of its era.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Bleak House is both modern and readable.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• I. In Chancery
• II. In Fashion
• III. A Progress
• IV. Telescopic Philanthropy
• V. A Morning Adventure
• VI. Quite at Home
• VII. The Ghost’s Walk
• VIII. Covering a Multitude of Sins
• IX. Signs and Tokens
• X. The Law-Writer
• XI. Our Dear Brother
• XII. On the Watch
• XIII. Esther’s Narrative
• XIV. Deportment
• XV. Bell Yard
• XVI. Tom-all-Alone’s
• XVII. Esther’s Narrative
• XVIII. Lady Dedlock
• XIX. Moving On
• XX. A New Lodger
• XXI. The Smallweed Family
• XXII. Mr. Bucket
• XXIII. Esther’s Narrative
• XXIV. An Appeal Case
• XXV. Mrs. Snagsby Sees It All
• XXVI. Sharpshooters
• XXVII. More Old Soldiers Than One
• XXVIII. The Ironmaster
• XXIX. The Young Man
• XXX. Esther’s Narrative
• XXXI. Nurse and Patient
• XXXII. The Appointed Time
• XXXIII. Interlopers
• XXXIV. A Turn of the Screw
• XXXV. Esther’s Narrative
• XXXVI. Chesney Wold
• XXXVII. Jarndyce and Jarndyce
• XXXVIII. A Struggle
• XXXIX. Attorney and Client
• XL. National and Domestic
• XLI. In Mr. Tulkinghorn’s Room
• XLII. In Mr. Tulkinghorn’s Chambers
• XLIII. Esther’s Narrative
• XLIV. The Letter and the Answer
• XLV. In Trust
• XLVI. Stop Him!
• XLVII. Jo’s Will
• XLVIII. Closing In
• XLIX. Dutiful Friendship
• L. Esther’s Narrative
• LI. Enlightened
• LII. Obstinacy
• LIII. The Track
• LIV. Springing a Mine
• LV. Flight
• LVI. Pursuit
• LVII. Esther’s Narrative
• LVIII. A Wintry Day and Night
• LIX. Esther’s Narrative
• LX. Perspective
• LXI. A Discovery
• LXII. Another Discovery
• LXIII. Steel and Iron
• LXIV. Esther’s Narrative
• LXV. Beginning the World
• LXVI. Down in Lincolnshire
• LXVII. The Close of Esther’s Narrative
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher