# Bleak House

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house/9780141974262

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house/9780141974262.json

![Bleak House](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/charles-dickens/bleak-house_978-01-4197-426-2.jpg?v=2026-04-24%2003%3A56%3A59)

- Book: [Bleak House](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house) ([Bleak House.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens/bleak-house.md))
- Authors: [Charles Dickens](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-dickens)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-426-2
- Published: 2012-12-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs...' As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.