Bleak House (Paperback)  | Released: 01 Feb 2021

Money turns people's lives around. And the Jarndyce family knows this very well. Meet the inhabitants of the Bleak House. Mr. John Jarndyce is the kind and generous owner of the House, who is the legal guardian of Esther Summerson, a woman with a mysterious parentage, of the young and beautiful Ada Clare, and of the restless and irresponsible Richard Carstone. Hovering over them all is a family curse--a never-ending court case about the family's long-disputed inheritance that has been going on for decades. The case has become 'so complicated that no man alive knows what it means', and threatens to ruin the lives and happiness of the Jarndyce family. Richard, despite John's warning, becomes obsessed with the case and holds out hope of winning it. Will his efforts bear fruit and finally end the family curse? Or will he become another unfortunate victim? Considered to be Charles Dickens' best work, Bleak House addresses the corrupt system of law and litigiousness, and provoked intense responses through its satire on the society of nineteenth-century England. It remains a wonderful piece of writing that continues to enthral readers even today, two centuries after its publication.About the Author: Charles Dickens was one of the most popular English writers of all time. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Born in Portsmouth, England, on 7 February, 1812, Dickens was the second of eight children. He was forced to leave school after his father's imprisonment, to work at a boot-blacking factory. His early childhood experiences were much like those depicted in his novel-- David Copperfield. He felt abandoned and betrayed by the adults who were supposed to take care of him. These sentiments later became a recurring theme in his writings. In 1865, Dickens was involved in a train accident and never fully recovered. On June 9, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke and, at the age of 58, died at Gad's Hill Place, his country home in Kent, England, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.