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Bleak HouseOn the coverThe Houses of Parliament, Claude Monet, 1903–1904
Bleak House
An endless lawsuit over a disputed inheritance grinds through the fog-bound Court of Chancery, entangling wards, aristocrats, a crossing-sweeper, and the first true detective in English fiction. Dickens’s vast, angry, brilliant panorama of a society choking on its own institutions.
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The grandest of Dickens’s novels, a whole society in miniature, part murder mystery, part social thunderbolt, unforgettably told in two interlocking voices. Dense, dazzling, worth every page.
SettingLondon, 1850s
Victorian London under a permanent fog, where a legal case could outlive the people it was meant to help, and vast wealth and utter destitution lived a street apart.