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
The Image (novel) The Image (novel) The Image (or in French "L'Image") is a classic 1956 sadomasochistic erotic novel, written by Catherine Robbe-Grillet and published under the pseudonym of Jean de Berg by éditions de Minuit in 1956. It was made into a 1973 film, "The Image", also known as "The Punishment of Anne". Edmund White considered the novel "scandalous but eloquent...metaphysical". Susan Sontag placed the text among the very few (5) erotic novels she considered to have serious artistic weight. "The Image" is centred on a triangular relationship between the male narrator and two women, Anne and Claire. The narrator is puzzled