Bleak House (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Dickens
- First Published: 1852
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Social issues, England or English people, Blackmail, Lower classes, Inheritance or succession, Lawyers, Moral conditions, Mysteries, Victorian era or Victorianism, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: London, England, Hertfordshire, England, Lincolnshire, England
Among the many orphans of a society that refuses to take paternal care of its weak and helpless, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare could be called the novel’s protagonists. But their tragic love pales in significance beside the fate of the beautiful and haughty Lady Dedlock, whose mysterious secret threatens to shake the aristocracy out of its irresponsible stupor.
Along with almost everyone else in the novel, Lady Dedlock is caught up in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a infamously protracted case in the Court of Chancery which provokes some of Dickens’ most brilliant satire. But he is...
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