Bleak HouseBy: Charles Dickens Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens's finest achievements, Bleak House tells the complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of nineteenth century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the