'Bleak house' opens in a London shrouded by an all-pervading fog - a fog that swirls around the Court of Chancery, where lawyers are enriching themselves in endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. Peopled with characters both comic and tragic - including one of literature’s first detectives and a case of spontaneous human combustion - in settings ranging from the mansion of a fear-haunted noblewoman to the squalor of the London slums.
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'Bleak house' opens in a London shrouded by an all-pervading fog - a fog that swirls around the Court of Chancery, where lawyers are enriching themselves in endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. Peopled with characters both comic and tragic - including one of literature’s first detectives and a case of spontaneous human combustion - in settings ranging from the mansion of a fear-haunted noblewoman to the squalor of the London slums.