Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. Part panoramic social satire and – with the introduction of the indefatigable police investigator Mr Bucket – part prototype of the detective genre, this dark, complex and intricately plotted book is considered by many to be both Dickens’s greatest work and the finest novel of the Victorian age. : Bleak House (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels): 9780486812465: Dickens. Elsewhere, others are driven to ever more heinous acts, including blackmail – and even murder. Your Plus plan is 7.95 a month after 30 day trial. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. But as the legal machinery grinds mercilessly on, the quixotic but feckless Richard, determined to resolve the lawsuit once and for all, seems doomed to be crushed under its weight, while Esther uncovers a shocking mystery concerning her own past. Bleak House By: Charles Dickens Narrated by: Simon Vance Length: 32 hrs and 57 mins 4.6 (1,207 ratings) Try for 0.00 Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. The expansive narrative covers many plots, including the first. Held in its inexorable grip – along with a diverse cross section of mid-Victorian society, from baronets to crossing-sweepers – are two wards of court, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, who, along with the selfless Esther Summerson, are taken in by the kindly philanthropist John Jarndyce, owner of the eponymous Bleak House. Bleak House is a novel by English Victorian author Charles Dickens, published between 1852-1853. The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and a source of great profit to those professionally engaged in it. Bleak House is one of Charles Dickenss major novels, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens