BLEAK HOUSE: Charles Dickens - FULL AudioBook: Part 1/4

BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens ABOUT THE BOOK: Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens’s major novels, 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 the long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. This legal case is used by Dickens to satirise the English judicial system, and he makes use of his earlier experiences as a law clerk, and as a litigant seeking to enforce copyright on his earlier books. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens’s satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. There is some debate among scholars as to when Bleak House is set. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth sets the action in 1827; however, reference to preparation for the building of a railway in Chapter LV suggests the 1830s. ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: Listen to the best free Audiobooks! On this channel, you’ll find audiobooks of great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more. If you’re looking for an audiobook, you’ve come to the right place, all FREE of charge for your listening pleasure! We’re always adding new audiobooks so stay posted! Subscribe: MORE ABOUT THE BOOK: Audiobook Name: Bleak House Author: Charles Dickens Country: United Kingdom Genre: Novel Publisher: Bradbury & Evans Publication date: 1853 Part 2 of 4: Part 3 of 4: Part 4 of 4: Bleak House PLAYLIST (ALL PARTS): More from Charles Dickens: CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 - Preface 00:05:40 - Chapter 1: In Chancery 00:22:51 - Chapter 2: In Fashion 00:41:13 - Chapter 3: A Progress 01:33:16 - Chapter 4: Telescopic Philanthropy 02:03:58 - Chapter 5: A Morning Adventure 02:42:06 - Chapter 6: Quite at Home 03:40:45 - Chapter 7: The Ghost’s Walk 04:08:23 - Chapter 8: Covering a Multitude of Sins 05:00:13 - Chapter 9: Signs and Tokens 05:40:46 - Chapter 10: The Law-Writer 06:08:55 - Chapter 11: Our Dear Brother 06:47:18 - Chapter 12: On the Watch 07:24:32 - Chapter 13: Esther’s Narrative 08:06:22 - Chapter 14: Deportment 09:02:53 - Chapter 15: Bell Yard 09:46:55 - Chapter 16: Tom-all-Alone’s 10:09:28 - Chapter 17: Esther’s Narrative