Bleak House | Bleak House

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Author: Charles Dickens
First Published: 1852
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
Subjects: Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Social issues, England or English people, Blackmail, Lower classes, Inheritance or succession, Lawyers, Moral conditions, Mysteries, Victorian era or Victorianism, Courts or courtrooms
Locales: London, England, Hertfordshire, England, Lincolnshire, England

Bleak House. Home of John Jarndyce, the novel’s elderly hero-benefactor, and his cousins Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, and ward, Summerson, the novel’s heroine. Situated in the region of St. Albans, a town some twenty miles north of London, Bleak House is portrayed as a refuge, not only from the corruption of the Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lawsuit, but from the corruption of London itself. It is a large old rambling house, as eccentric as its owner. Yet, as its very name suggests, it is not all sweetness and light. The Jarndyce case affects...

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