Bleak House
"There was a light sparkling on the top of a hill before us, and the driver, pointing to it with his whip and crying, 'That's Bleak House!' put his horses into a canter and took us forward at such a rate, uphill though it was, that the wheels sent the road drift flying about our heads like spray from a water-mill. Presently we lost the light, presently saw it, presently lost it, presently saw it, and turned into an avenue of trees and cantered up towards where it was beaming brightly." -- Bleak House Often considered Charles Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House blends together several literary genres -- detective fiction, romance, melodrama, and satire -- to create an unforgettable portrait of the decay and corruption at the heart of English law and society in the Victorian era.
