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
House of Parties of Iran of Iran to join in 2004. House of Parties of Iran Parties' House or House of Parties of Iran () is a non-governmental organization in Iran, consisting of legal and registered political parties. It aims to minimize differences between the members and is a member of International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP). The association is backed by the Iranian government and annually funds its member parties (about $2.5 million in 2004). It was founded in 1997 with the growing emergence of political parties in Iran and reopened in 2015. As of 2008, 168 parties were member of the association.