Bleak House the novel is – as you would expect – pretty bleak, but Bleak House the eponymous house in the book is one of the happier places to be found therein. In any case this being a Dickens novel you should not expect a wall to wall bleak fest. You would need to pop over to Hardyverse (also call...
bookshelves: published-1853 Read in January, 2007 Oh this was good - internal combustion, the token child's deathbed scene, scatty and quirky characters with loopy names, villains to hiss at and I feel Bucket did a pretty good Poirot impersonation. Five star goodness.ETA: 9/3/2012: 6 likes
I can't say that this is my favourite Dickens, and I found the first two hundred pages or so rocky going, with a few misunderstandings on my part that served to baffle rather than inform. But as the novel started to come together, and the disparate characters started to interact more strongly, I end...
"The few words that I have to add to what I have written, are soon penned; then I, and the unknown friend to whom I write, will part for ever. Not without much dear remembrance on my side. Not without some, I hope, on his or hers." p.985This is Dickens in 1853 writing to his reader through Esther...
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas my reading pace ground to a halt. Thanks a lot Dick...........ens!This is a long book, but I've read longer ones that didn't seem half as long as Bleak House. Saharan-esque stretches of plodding plot didn't help. But more than that, this book suffers from having to...
Had to read this for my English Novel class, and it was absolutely excellent. This is the type of writing I like--detailed and descriptive, allowing the reader to see the images and scenes the author creates in their mind's eye. Absolutely beautiful and brillant!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Charles Dickens is a genius with his cast. Another thing I find really enjoyable about his work is he has a way of making you assume things that aren't true, to the point you don't even question them, which makes for good plot twists.I think this is my favo...
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