Bleak House

The Illustrated Gift Edition

Charles Dickens

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501009691
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A chancery suit has ground on so long that nobody alive recalls what it was about, and the fog that opens the novel never lifts off it. Dickens runs two narrators, hides a murder mystery in the machinery, and builds the first detective in English fiction to work it out. Paintings, and decoration for the Gilded Library built out of London fog, tied bundles of brief and a guttering candle.

Table of contents

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