Bleak House [Paperback]

The complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it. Charles Dickens(1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is widely regarded as the greatest male novelist of the Victorian era. His best-known works includeBleak House,A Christmas Carol,A Tale of Two Cities, andThe Pickwick Papers.