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
Bleak House: The Death of Rudolph van Richten Bleak House: The Death of Rudolph van Richten Bleak House: The Death of Rudolph van Richten is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, published in 1996. "Bleak House: The Death of Rudolph van Richten" is a three-adventure campaign for the Ravenloft setting, consisting of "Adventure One, Whom Fortune Would Destroy", "Adventure Two, The Baron", and "Adventure Three, Homecoming". In "Whom Fortune Would Destroy", the player characters are stranded on a remote desert island and the guests of a revered psychologist whose treatments at the Asylum seem effective but disturbing. "The Baron"