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Author: Charles DickensFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Lb May & Assoc IncISBN-10: 1853260827
ISBN-13: 9781853260827Educational Level: --
Product Type: --Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Literature & FictionLanguage: English
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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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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket. And it is a fable about redemption, in which a bleak house is transformed by the resilience of human love.

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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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Bleak House (Wordsworth Classics)

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 1853260827
Title : Bleak House (Wordsworth Classics)
EAN : 9781853260827
Authors : Charles Dickens
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date : 1993-12-07
Pages : 800
List Price (MSRP) : 1.99
Height : 1.9700 inches
Width : 4.9600 inches
Length : 7.6400 inches
Weight : 1.1000 pounds
Keywords : Look Inside!, Dickens, Charles, General, General AAS, English, Paperback, Regular Size
Condition : Good

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