"England" . . "1800 - 1899" . . "Great Britain" . . "London (England)" . . . . . . "Bleak House"@en . "Bleak House" . . . "Domestic fiction" . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . . "Bleak house" . "Bleak house"@en . . "Legal stories"@en . "Legal stories" . . . . . . . . . . "History"@en . . . . . . . . "Bleak House ... With an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson"@en . "Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades--the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs. As Dickens takes us through the case's history, he presents a cast of characters as idiosyncratic and memorable as any he ever created, including the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who hides a shocking secret about an illegitimate child and a long-lost love; Mr. Bucket, one of the first detectives to appear in English fiction; and the hilarious Mrs. Jellyby, whose endless philanthropy has left her utterly unconcerned about her own family. As a question of inheritance becomes a question of murder, the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, struggles to discover the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. Can the resilience of her love transform a bleak house? And--more devastatingly--will justice prevail? --From publisher's description."@en . . "Bildungsromans" . . "Bildungsromans"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . .