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Original Title:	Bleak House
ISBN:	0143037617 (ISBN13: 9780143037613)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Esther Summerson, Lady Dedlock, John Jarndyce, Sir Leicester Dedlock
Setting:	England

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Paperback | Pages: 1017 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 91310 Users | 3958 Reviews

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Title	:	Bleak House
Author	:	Charles Dickens
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1017 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2006 by Penguin Books (first published 1853)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Humor. Animals. Travel

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Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

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I feel like the weather today in Belgium (it's dark and cold and snowy). I thought all Charles Dickens books where like this weather. I thought it met my feelings. But after reading I see this is not at all a dark and ' bleak' book. It's a book about human feelings, their interactions, about hope and tenderness, friendship, love. Of course there are some bleak components: people die, there's murder, poverty ... but there's a light of humanity beyond this all. The underlying factor that binds all

I know, something about a 900 page book with bleak in the title doesnt exactly scream summer fun. Nevertheless, this was a page-turner with more laugh-out-loud moments than any book I've read in recent memory. Who could have seen that coming?? And it's gripping enough that I can understand why it was a bestseller, in spite of Dickens harsh social criticism and his rather daring innovation of dual narratives. But the story is a winner largely because of the dual narratives, which bob and weave

Okay, so this is the 1853 version of The Wire. But with less gay sex. And no swearing. And very few mentions of drugs. And only one black person, I think, maybe not even one. And of course it's in London, not Baltimore. But other than that, it's the same.Pound for pound, this is Dickens' best novel, and of course, that is saying a great deal. I've nearly read all of them so you may take my word. Have I ever written a review which was anything less than 101% reliable, honest and straightforward?

The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself...'Sadly, this quote from Bleak House is as true today as it was in Dickens' time. Being caught up in a protracted legal battle myself, I have first-hand experience of this (and, no, I dont want to talk about it, thanks). It was almost enough to make me want to put off reading this book until a later, less angst-ridden, date but no; Id decided I wanted to sink my teeth into a longer book after reading so many short (<

Shivering in unheated gaslit quarters (Mrs. Winklebottom, my plump and inquisitive landlady, treats the heat as very dear, and my radiator, which clanks and hisses like the chained ghost of a boa constrictor when it is active, had not yet commenced this stern and snowy morning), I threw down the volume I had been endeavoring to study; certainly I am not clever, neither am I intrepid nor duly digligent, as after several pages I found the cramped and tiny print an intolerable strain on my

Throughout the many pages of this novel, it is once again the virtuosity of the great Charles Dickens that expresses itself and unfolds through the perfectly mastered destinies of his many characters. The quality of the storytelling work, the ingenuity put into the workings of the multifaceted double narrative, the great romantic breath that Dickens knows, better than anyone else, distilling in each of his sentences, finally his incomparable 'so British' humour with cynical accents, make "Bleak

Bleak House. How can it be over? I hold this incredible book in my hand and cant believe I have finished it. The 965 page, 2 inch thick, tiny-typed tome may seem a bit intimidating. Relax, you can read it in a day - that is, if you read one page per minute for 16 hours. And you might just find yourself doing that. Bleak House is more Twilight Zone than Masterpiece Theatre. However there is enough spirit of both to satisfy everyone. And indeed it should - it has it all - unforgettable