Bleak House

Charles Dickens’s novel of the endless Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, told partly by Esther Summerson, a young woman taken in by John Jarndyce, and woven with the secret of Lady Dedlock, the lawyer Tulkinghorn, and the crossing-sweeper Jo. It was first published in monthly parts in 1852–1853. This edition follows a public-domain English text of that book.