"Bleak House" weaves a vast mystery around the endless lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, satirising the paralysis of the English Court of Chancery. Its Inspector Bucket is one of the first detectives in English fiction, making the novel a landmark for both social criticism and the mystery genre.
Sources for Charles Dickens — Bleak House
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Held in the Charles Dickens chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Charles Dickens — The Pickwick Papers (1837)
- Charles Dickens — Oliver Twist (1838)
- Charles Dickens — David Copperfield (1850)
- Charles Dickens — Hard Times (1854)
- Charles Dickens — Little Dorrit (1857)
- Charles Dickens — A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Charles Dickens — Great Expectations (1861)
- Charles Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)