Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Bleak HouseCharles Dickens · 1853The endless Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce and everyone caught in it. Read Bleak House by Charles Dickens page by page and explore its network of…London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better…All books in the ECCE gallery