Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, 1852/3. It features the long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce. It has multiple storylines and switches perspective between the first-person main character, Esther Summerson, and a third-person narrator. The book was first published monthly, in 20 parts, from 1852-1853.

This novel helped support a judicial reform movement which led to legal reform in the 1870s.

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