Bleak House
Dickens, Charles / Gaitskill, Mary / Browne, H.K.![Bleak House](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/970/9708296/CHSBZCOP039708296.jpg)
Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set against the foggy backdrop of the Court of Chancery. Mixing romance, mys...