名称：荒凉山庄 Bleak House
或译为《萧斋》,发表于1852年至1853年之间,是狄更斯最长的作品之一,它以错综复杂的情节揭露英国法律制度和司法机构的黑暗.
这部小说内容讽刺英国古老的“大法官庭”（Chancery）的作风,是司法体制颟顸、邪恶、无能的象征.小说描写了一件争夺遗产的诉讼案,由于司法人员从中营私、徇讦,竟使得案情拖延二十年.在一个偶然机会里,男爵夫人的私生女艾瑟.萨莫森（Esther Summerson）被那一群律师得知,于是追根究柢的律师藉此威胁男爵夫人,甚至整死一名流浪少年,男爵夫人被迫离家出走,死于一场暴风雪.
其中一名律师被他所利用的人杀害.这二十年期间申诉者居住在荒凉山庄,主人约翰.詹狄士（John Jarndyce）成为一对表兄妹的监护人,等待法官做最后的判决,最后整笔遗产正好全数支付有关的法律诉讼费用,跟诉讼案有关的人死的死,发疯的发疯.多数评论家如萧伯纳、切斯特顿、康拉德、崔尔琳等人皆认为这部小说是“创下小说写作高峰”,也是第一本“法律小说”.
Name:Bleak House
Or translated,"Shaw Studio",released in 1852 to 1853,and is the longest of the works of Dickens,one of the complex plot to expose it to the British legal system and judicial institutions of the dark.Ironically,the British novel elements of the old "Justice Court" (Chancery) in the style of the judicial system Man Han,evil,a symbol of incompetence.Novel depicts a battle heritage litigation,the judiciary from feather one's nest,as many have suggested criticized them actually delay in making the case two decades.In a fortuitous opportunity,the baroness's illegitimate daughter Esther.Samo Sen (Esther Summerson) was that a group of lawyers knowing the final analysis,the threat to Baroness lawyers,and even to death a homeless teenager,Baron his wife was forced to leave their homes,died in a snowstorm.One of the lawyers was killed by his use.The complainant during the two decades living in Bleak House,owner John.Zhandi Shi (John Jarndyce) as the guardian of a pair of cousins,waiting for the judge make a final ruling,the last full block just to pay estate costs related to legal proceedings,with proceedings case died of the dead,crazy crazy.Most commentators such as George Bernard Shaw,Chesterton,Conrad,Cui Ayleen so everyone that the novel is "a record peak of Novel Writing," is the first of the "legal fiction."
