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Item number:230389289438
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Author: Charles DickensFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classic & LovesweptISBN-10: 0553212230
Edition Description: ReissueISBN-13: 9780553212235
Educational Level: --Product Type: --
Publication Year: 1995Subject: Literature & Fiction
Language: EnglishCondition: Good
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The English legal system is the main object of Dickens's satire in BLEAK HOUSE, perhaps the first legal thriller, which centers on the interminable case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce as it makes its tortuous way over the generations through the Court of Chancery. The battle drags on, the litigants are ruined by the legal fees, and the case itself becomes so convoluted that no one--lawyers, judges, plaintiffs--even remembers entirely what is at stake. As Dickens takes us through the case's history, he creates his usual array of vividly realized comic, tragic, and satirical figures, from the corrupt lawyer, Tulkinghorn, to the pathetic crossing-sweeper, little Jo, to the clerk called Nemo, including characters with such wonderful monikers as Krook, Snagsby, Lord Doodle, and the perfectly named Lord and Lady Dedlock. As he does so often, Dickens shows us in BLEAK HOUSE--perhaps his most ambitious novel--that venality, corruption, and vanity have always been a part of human nature. Under the high comedy, he also shows us, very clearly, the anger and indignation these qualities roused in him, and his compassion for the helplessness of the poor in the face of a social and legal system that seems, at times, designed only to destroy them.

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Height:7.0 in.
Width:4.3 in.
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Weight:14.4 oz.

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Written in 1852, this grand indictment of Victorian society-- on its surface a mystery story-- deals with the themes of the vagaries of the High Court of Chancery and misplaced children.

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"In the realm of mystery stories there are four books which everyone should read. They are 'The Lodger', 'Malice' 'Aforethought', 'Bleak House', and 'The Nine Tailors'."
Sinclair Lewis 

"In the realm of mystery stories there are four books which everyone should read. They are THE LODGER, MALICE AFORETHOUGHT, BLEAK HOUSE, and THE NINE TAILORS."

"The strengths of BLEAK HOUSE are the integration of different structures, together with what would seem an irresistibly deconstructive impulse. The very activity of reading, paralleled to the business of detection, implicates us in the processes that are shown to be perverse. The novel holds the balance between mystery and revelation, literary creation and analytical destruction."
introduction - Nicola Bradbury 


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