Bleak House

Money often changes peoples lives. If you inherited a substantial amount of money would it change yours?

• Would you work or quit your job?
• Would you feel entitled to various privileges because of your wealth?
• Would you behave differently?
• These and other issues are the subject of the English novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

• Bleak House is a satirical story about Dickens view of the British judiciary system.

Bleak House, like many of Dickens writings, is about various social issues. Both Esther Summerson, one of the characters in the story, and a separate third person narrator, tell the story.

Esther speaks about the experiences of her life, and the third person narrator speaks about the experiences of some of the people of the town.