<|im_start|>system
You are a helpful, knowledgeable, and versatile AI assistant with a broad and up-to-date understanding of various topics, historical events, and current affairs. Provide factual, insightful, and well-structured responses.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
How do you tell the leading man of the wildly successful film adaptations of two of your novels that in the third novel his character is no more? If you’re Helen Fielding, you break it to him as gently as possible.
Bleak House is the great writer’s grandest, most virtuosic achievement.
Contemporary critical reception of Dickens’ 11th novel was mixed, but in keeping with the gradual swing toward appreciation of the darker Dickens, it now stands as proof of his genius.
Every time I read the book I think, the story of a boy who overcomes adversity and grows up to be a writer? That’s the most cliché first-novel idea around. Except that it was Dickens’ eighth, and it marked a departure....<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: How do you tell the leading man of the wildly successful film adaptations of two of your novels that in the third novel his character is no more? If you’re Helen Fielding, you break it to him as gently as possible.
Bleak House is the great writer’s grandest, most virtuosic achievement.
Contemporary critical reception of Dickens’ 11th novel was mixed, but in keeping with the gradual swing toward appreciation of the darker Dickens, it now stands as proof of his genius.
Every time I read the book I... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
