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 in the Bleak House" a "stunning tour-de-force". It won the Tom Stoppard Prize in 1984 for the best work of Czechoslovak unofficial literature. Attention has been paid to the fact that the book focuses exclusively on the stories of women, and particularly women in prison. "My Companions in the Bleak House" was made into a four-part miniseries for Czech Television in 1992, starring Ivana Chýlková. The four 70-minute episodes were written by Kantůrková with Václav Šašek. They were re-broadcast in 2001 and again in 2017, in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Charter 77. At the 1994 Festival International de