The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) which has far-reaching consequences for all involved.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an omniscient narrator. Eleanor Catton: ‘I fear the novel is too subtle an art form for the present day’ New Zealands Booker Prize winner on why it took her a decade to write her new novel Birnam Wood and the. It is widely held to be one of Dickens’ finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Librivox recording of the Bleak House by Charles Dickens.īleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853.
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