Bleak House
Americannoun
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They had travelled from Newark in Nottinghamshire that evening to raid the property, called Bleak House, where Martin stored antiques.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
At the end of a book tour in the U.K., on a whim, I booked myself into this bed-and-breakfast that was called Bleak House, and it’s where Charles Dickens used to live.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023
Kingsolver was touring in England for her 2018 book, “Unsheltered,” when she discovered that Bleak House, where Dickens wrote much of “David Copperfield,” was a bed-and-breakfast.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
Indeed, the six-year battle over Richard Mellon Scaife's trust could have been ripped from the pages of Charles Dickens' "Bleak House."
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2021
There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The East of the Mohicans.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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