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StrongA gravely ill child, Jo, asks to be buried with an old friend, struggles through his final conversation and dies while a doctor stays beside him.
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Bleak House is a novel by the English author Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator.
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A gravely ill child, Jo, asks to be buried with an old friend, struggles through his final conversation and dies while a doctor stays beside him.
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