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) novel, the Narrator is depicted as working at a military contractor company, and he and Marla are married and have a nine-year-old son named Junior. After Junior is killed in a house fire, it is revealed that Sebastian's mother and father both died in two other separate fires. Unlike in the film, Tyler appearance is based on a personal friend of the author, depicted as having "shoulder-length-Jesus blond hair." His temper is somewhat kept under control through Sebastian's medication. "Fight Club 2" provides a new, drastically different explanation for Tyler Durden: Sebastian discovers that Tyler is not merely his own