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Loading... Bleak House (Modern Library Classics) (original 1853; edition 2002)by Charles Dickens, H.K. Browne (Illustrator), Mary Gaitskill (Introduction)
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I had a mixed time with BH. Enjoyed the beginning, then the middle sagged before the quick gallop of plot developments at the end. I was glad to finish it though - it had outstayed its welcome by then. I had seen the BBC series (which is excellent) and I think that made the boring middle bits more bearable. Finally made it through this tome. Small print squished into the page and many pages at that made my eyes hurt from looking and my hands hurt from holding. Plus my brain needed all of its capacities to follow the story and its myriad characters. It is Dickens, after all. I really enjoyed Esther's narrative the best. It was written in a fairly direct style. The third person narrative is much more obtuse and implicit, which made it a challenge to decipher, at times. Keeping track of who's who is tough, too. But it is a good read and I am glad I persevered.
Bleak House represents the author at a perfectly poised late-middle moment in his extraordinary art. You have to embrace Bleak House for what it is – a rambling, confusing, verbose, over-populated, vastly improbable story which substitutes caricatures for people and is full of puns. In other words, an 800-page Dickens novel. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAlfaguara XIX (1) Everyman's Library (236) — 18 more insel taschenbuch (1110) New Century Library Works of Charles Dickens (Volume 10) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2011) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2012-12) Riverside Editions (B5) Is contained inGesammelte Werke. Die Pickwickier, Nikals Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, Weihnachtsgeschichten, Bleakhaus, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ContainsHas the adaptationIs abridged inInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a supplementHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsNotable Lists
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HTML: A enthralling story about the inequalities of the 19th-century English legal system Bleak House is one of Charles Dicken's most multifaceted novels. Bleak House deals with a multiplicity of characters, plots and subplots that all weave in and around the true story of the famous case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a case of litigation in England's Court of Chancery, which starts as a problem of legacy and wills, but soon raises the question of murder. .No library descriptions found. |
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