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Bleak House

Charles Dickens

At its center lies Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an endless legal case in the Court of Chancery involving conflicting wills.

"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens is a novel. At its center lies Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an endless legal case in the Court of Chancery involving conflicting wills.

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London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.

Contents

  1. 01Preface
  2. 02Chapter I
  3. 03In Chancery
  4. 04Chapter II
  5. 05In Fashion
  6. 06Chapter III
  7. 07A Progress
  8. 08Chapter IV
  9. 09Telescopic Philanthropy
  10. 10Chapter V
  11. 11A Morning Adventure
  12. 12Chapter VI
  13. 13Quite at Home
  14. 14Chapter VII
  15. 15The Ghost’s Walk
  16. 16Chapter VIII
  17. 17Covering a Multitude of Sins
  18. 18Chapter IX
  19. 19Signs and Tokens
  20. 20Chapter X
  21. 21The Law-Writer
  22. 22Chapter XI
  23. 23Our Dear Brother
  24. 24Chapter XII
  25. 25On the Watch
  26. 26Chapter XIII
  27. 27Esther’s Narrative
  28. 28Chapter XIV
  29. 29Deportment
  30. 30Chapter XV
  31. 31Bell Yard
  32. 32Chapter XVI
  33. 33Tom-all-Alone’s
  34. 34Chapter XVII
  35. 35Esther’s Narrative
  36. 36Chapter XVIII
  37. 37Lady Dedlock
  38. 38Chapter XIX
  39. 39Moving On
  40. 40Chapter XX
  41. 41A New Lodger
  42. 42Chapter XXI
  43. 43The Smallweed Family
  44. 44Chapter XXII
  45. 45Mr. Bucket
  46. 46Chapter XXIII
  47. 47Esther’s Narrative
  48. 48Chapter XXIV
  49. 49An Appeal Case
  50. 50Chapter XXV
  51. 51Mrs. Snagsby Sees It All
  52. 52Chapter XXVI
  53. 53Sharpshooters
  54. 54Chapter XXVII
  55. 55More Old Soldiers Than One
  56. 56Chapter XXVIII
  57. 57The Ironmaster
  58. 58Chapter XXIX
  59. 59The Young Man
  60. 60Chapter XXX

About this edition

Author
Charles Dickens
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
1147 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers