Bleak House

Charles Dickens

• Publisher: Passerino
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9791224490388
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

In the shadowed courts of Chancery, where justice moves slowly and lives are consumed by endless delay, the fate of an inheritance draws together a remarkable cast of characters: the innocent Esther Summerson, the troubled Lady Dedlock, the generous John Jarndyce, the ambitious Richard Carstone, and many others caught in the fog of secrets, ambition, poverty, and power.
Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens’s greatest masterpieces: a vast and unforgettable portrait of Victorian England, where the grandeur of wealth stands beside the misery of the poor, and where private sorrow is inseparable from social injustice. With irony, compassion, mystery, and extraordinary narrative force, Dickens exposes the failures of a legal system that destroys those who seek its protection.

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian era. Born in Portsmouth, England, he experienced poverty in childhood after his father was imprisoned for debt, an event that deeply influenced his later writing. Dickens became famous for his vivid characters, powerful storytelling, and strong criticism of social injustice.
His major works include Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. Through his novels, Dickens exposed the hardships of the poor, the cruelty of child labor, the failures of institutions, and the inequalities of Victorian society.
Beloved in his lifetime and still widely read today, Dickens remains one of the most important figures in world literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Bleak House
• Table of contents
• Preface
• 1. In Chancery
• 2. In Fashion
• 3. A Progress
• 4. Telescopic Philanthropy
• 5. A Morning Adventure
• 6. Quite at Home
• 7. The Ghost’s Walk
• 8. Covering a Multitude of Sins
• 9. Signs and Tokens
• 10. The Law-Writer
• 11. Our Dear Brother
• 12. On the Watch
• 13. Esther’s Narrative
• 14. Deportment
• 15. Bell Yard
• 16. Tom-All-Alone’s
• 17. Esther’s Narrative
• 18. Lady Dedlock
• 19. Moving On
• 20. A New Lodger
• 21. The Smallweed Family
• 22. Mr. Bucket
• 23. Esther’s Narrative
• 24. An Appeal Case
• 25. Mrs. Snagsby Sees It All
• 26. Sharpshooters
• 27. More Old Soldiers Than One
• 28. The Ironmaster
• 29. The Young Man
• 30. Esther’s Narrative
• 31. Nurse and Patient
• 32. The Appointed Time
• 33. Interlopers
• 34. A Turn of the Screw
• 35. Esther’s Narrative
• 36. Chesney Wold
• 37. Jarndyce and Jarndyce
• 38. A Struggle
• 39. Attorney and Client
• 40. National and Domestic
• 41. In Mr. Tulkinghorn’s Room
• 42. In Mr. Tulkinghorn’s Chambers
• 43. Esther’s Narrative
• 44. The Letter and the Answer
• 45. In Trust
• 46. Stop Him!
• 47. Jo’s Will
• 48. Closing In
• 49. Dutiful Friendship
• 50. Esther’s Narrative
• 51. Enlightened
• 52. Obstinacy
• 53. The Track
• 54. Springing a Mine
• 55. Flight
• 56. Pursuit
• 57. Esther’s Narrative
• 58. A Wintry Day and Night
• 59. Esther’s Narrative
• 60. Perspective
• 61. A Discovery
• 62. Another Discovery
• 63. Steel and Iron
• 64. Esther’s Narrative
• 65. Beginning the World
• 66. Down in Lincolnshire
• 67. The Close of Esther’s Narrative