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Charles Dickens
1852–53
Novel
Drama, Romance
Parts of Bleak House are told in the third person by an omniscient narrator; other sections are told in the first person by the main character, Esther Summerson. She is the only first-person female narrator in all of Dickens's fiction.
Those chapters of Bleak House told by Esther Summerson are written in the past tense. Chapters told by the narrator are in the present tense. Bleak House is the only novel Dickens wrote in the present tense.
Bleak House is named after the home of John Jarndyce, who takes in the orphans Richard Carstone and Ada Clare—two of the many heirs named in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce probate case—and hires Esther Summerson as Ada's companion. Despite its name, the large house is warm and inviting.
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