The fog and cold that permeate 'Bleak House' mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit-and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean. | Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters