# Bleak House

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- 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: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-9785-721-1
- Published: 2008-12-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Bleak House in half the time Esther Summerson finds herself caught up in the frustrations of a seemingly unending law-case involving her generous guardian Mr Jarndyce and her wards Ada and Richard. Brought into contact with poverty and disease, Esther suffers a serious illness. Meanwhile the unscrupulous lawyer Tulkinghorn seeks to expose the past of the wife of a rich aristocrat, and the secret of Esther's birth is revealed. But in the midst of tumultuous events, will she ever find love?