In the middle of Bleak House, the heroine, an orphan named Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind. The first time I read the novel I was so shocked and upset by this turn of events that I ...

Bleak House is a well-known classic, following the Court of Chancery case Jarndyce v Jarndyce as it impacts all those party to it. As the law plays a central role within the book, there are several ...

The University of Indianapolis is offering a low-cost, book-club-style Communiversity course to students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members. This year’s course will focus on the themes of ...

CANBERRA, July 22 (Reuters Life!) - Writer Charles Dickens is lauded for chronicling the way of life in Victorian England in his novels but his treatment of his own wife was also indicative of society ...

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.

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