Charles Dickens is one of the most celebrated English writers. His novels 'Oliver Twist,' 'The Life of David Copperfield,' 'The Old Curiosity Shop,' and many others are considered masterpieces of world literature. However, it is 'Bleak House' that many writers and critics have called his most gripping work. This novel centers on the life of a young orphan, Esther Summerson. After being cared for by her chance benefactor, Mr. Jarndyce, after leaving boarding school, she finds herself at his ancient estate, known as Bleak House, which is the subject of one of the most famous Supreme Court of Chancery cases, Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. As she gradually settles into her new home and makes new acquaintances, the girl, by force of circumstances, finds herself drawn into a complex interweaving of human destinies, personal feelings, criminal intrigues, and other people's family secrets—and one of these secrets, as it soon becomes clear, has a direct connection to Esther herself... In this edition, for the first time in Russia, the text of the novel is accompanied by two sets of illustrations by the remarkable 19th-century English artists Frederick Barnard and Hablot Knight Brown.