In the middle of Bleak House, the heroine, an orphan named Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind. The first time I read the novel I was so shocked and upset by this turn of events that I ...

In the early days of 2024, if you are looking for topical reading, you couldn’t do better than to turn or return to Charles Dickens’s massive, panoramic, blistering, delectable 1852 novel ‘Bleak House ...

Bleak House is a well-known classic, following the Court of Chancery case Jarndyce v Jarndyce as it impacts all those party to it. As the law plays a central role within the book, there are several ...

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Quote of the day by Charles Dickens: Born as Charles John Huffam Dickens, he was an English novelist, journalist and a social ...

LONDON - Charles Dickens' London home has gone from "Bleak House" to "Great Expectations." For years, the four-story brick row house where the author lived with his young family was a dusty and ...

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.