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 Narrator (Fight Club) as well - "breeding them like cattle" for generations, so Sebastian and Marla could in turn produce a son, who would be Tyler's host in the next generation. Their son Junior only faked his death in a house fire, as he is slowly being taken over by his own Tyler Durden split personality just as his father was. Sebastian has to race to stop "Tyler", even though he cannot truly kill him without killing both his son and himself. In the 1999 film "Fight Club", based on the Palahniuk novel and directed by David Fincher, the Narrator is portrayed by