The Classics Club Spin Result

Published on by Margaret

The spin number in The Classics Club Spin is number …

Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

The rules of the Spin are that this is the book for me to read by 11 April 2025.

Synopsis from Goodreads

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.


I first read Bleak House after watching the 2005 Andrew Davies’ adaptation of the novel on BBC1 with Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock and Charles Dance as lawyer, Mr Tulkinghorn, with many more well known actors in the cast. I’ve been meaning to re-read it sometime and so I am pleased to be reading it again.

Did you take part in the Classics Spin? What will you be reading?

10 thoughts on “The Classics Club Spin Result”

  1. Bleak House has so many layers to it, Margaret, and so many interesting characters! I also think if it as a detective novel, too, in its way, since there is that plot thread there. I hope you’ll enjoy revisiting it!

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  3. I didn’t know there was a film version of this. I don’t know this one at all, actually. But I’m guessing it isn’t short. Since you’ve already read it, I’m sure it won’t take you long to get through it.

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    1. Davida, I watched a BBC television drama serial of Bleak House. The book is long, over 1,000 pages and the drama serial was shown over a one-hour opening episode followed by 14 half-hour episodes. I read it 20 years ago and apart from knowing I enjoyed both the serialisation and the book very much I don’t remember the details. And at the rate I read now I don’t think I’ll be able to read it quickly especially as it’s by Dickens with loads of characters and subplots etc. But I am really looking forward to re-reading it.

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