Bleak House Bleak House Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of "Bleak House" is a long-running legal case, "Jarndyce and Jarndyce", which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirise the English judicial system. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which
My Companions in the Bleak House Programmes Audiovisuels in Cannes, "My Companions in the Bleak House" won the FIPA d'argent (silver) for Best Series or Miniseries, and Chýlková won the FIPA d'or (gold) for Best Actress. Episodes: My Companions in the Bleak House My Companions in the Bleak House () is a novel by Czech author Eva Kantůrková, first published in 1984 and was the first recipient of the Tom Stoppard Prize. It is a fictionalised account of Kantůrková's time in prison on charges of sedition in Communist Czechoslovakia. In 1992 it was adapted into a -hour miniseries, which won two awards at the Festival International