Bleak House

By Dickens, Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0000623746
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Title:	Bleak House
Author:	Dickens, Charles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. In Chancery 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; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another?s umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot?hold at street?corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Bleak House, 1 -- Charles Dickens, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- Chapter I. In Chancery, 3 -- Chapter II. In Fashion, 7 -- Chapter III. A Progress, 11 -- Chapter IV. Telescopic Philanthropy, 24 -- Chapter V. A Morning Adventure, 32 -- Chapter VI. Quite at Home, 40 -- Chapter VII. The Ghost's Walk, 54 -- Chapter VIII. Covering a Multitude of Sins, 60 -- Chapter IX. Signs and Tokens, 72 -- Chapter X. The Law?Writer, 81 -- Chapter XI. Our Dear Brother, 88 -- Chapter XII. On the Watch, 97 -- Chapter XIII. Esther's Narrative, 106 -- Chapter XIV. Deportment, 116 -- Chapter XV. Bell Yard, 129 -- Chapter XVI. Tom?all?Alone's, 139 -- Chapter XVII. Esther's Narrative, 144 -- Chapter XVIII. Lady Dedlock, 154 -- Chapter XIX. Moving On, 164 -- Chapter XX. A New Lodger, 173 -- Chapter XXI. The Smallweed Family, 182 -- Chapter XXII. Mr. Bucket, 194 -- Chapter XXIII. Esther's Narrative, 204 -- Chapter XXIV. An Appeal Case, 216 -- Chapter XXV. Mrs. Snagsby Sees It All, 227 -- Chapter XXVI. Sharpshooters, 233 -- Chapter XXVII. More Old Soldiers Than One, 242 -- Chapter XXVIII. The Ironmaster, 250 -- Chapter XXIX. The Young Man, 258 -- Chapter XXX. Esther's Narrative, 264 -- Chapter XXXI. Nurse and Patient, 274 -- Chapter XXXII. The Appointed Time, 284 -- Chapter XXXIII. Interlopers, 293 -- Chapter XXXIV. A Turn of the Screw, 303 -- Chapter XXXV. Esther's Narrative, 314 -- Chapter XXXVI. Chesney Wold, 323 -- Chapter XXXVII. Jarndyce and Jarndyce, 332 -- Chapter XXXVIII. A Struggle, 344 -- Chapter XXXIX. Attorney and Client, 350 -- Chapter XL. National and Domestic, 360 -- Chapter XLI. In Mr. Tulkinghorn's Room, 367 -- Chapter XLII. In Mr. Tulkinghorn's Chambers, 373 -- Chapter XLIII. Esther's Narrative, 379 -- Chapter XLIV. The Letter and the Answer, 389