Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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| Last Update: | 2007-07-22 17:11:58 |
| Version: | 1.00 |
| OS Support: | Windows Mobile for Pocket PC |
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"There is little to be satisfied in reading this book"?? I
couldn't disagree more. Bleak House left a profound impression on
me, and was so utterly satisfying a reading experience that I
wanted it never to end. I've read it twice over the years and look
forward to reading it again. Definitely my favorite novel.
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Classic Novel
4189 pages / 67 chapters (the trial contains 1373 pages / 20
chapters)
727kb in size (trial: 258kb)
published/edited by dmdSOFTWARE.NET
year of publication 2002
by Charles Dickens
written in 1850
I don't know what the previous reviewer's demands are when
reading a novel, but mine are these: the story must create its
world - whatever and wherever that world might be - and make me
BELIEVE it. If the novelist cannot create that world in my mind,
and convince me of its truths, they've wasted my time (style
doesn't matter - it can be clean and spare like Orwell or verbose
like Dickens, because any style can work in the hands of someone
who knows how to use it). Many novels fail this test, but Bleak
House is not one of them.
Bleak House succeeds in creating a wonderfully dark and complex
spider web of a world. On the surface it's unfamiliar: Victorian
London and the court of Chancery - obviously no one alive today
knows that world first hand. And yet as you read it you know it to
be real: the deviousness, the longing, the secrets, the
bureaucracy, the overblown egos, the unfairness of it all. Wait a
minute... could that be because all those things still exist
today?
But it's not all doom and gloom. It also has Dickens's many
shades of humor: silliness, word play, comic dialogue, preposterous
characters with mocking names, and of course a constant satirical
edge. It also has anger and passion and tenderness.
I will grant one thing: if you don't love reading enough to get
into the flow of Dickens's sentences, you'll probably feel like the
previous reviewer that "...it goes on and on, in interminable
detail and description...". It's a different dance rhythm folks,
but well worth getting used to. If you have to, work your way up to
it. Don't start with a biggie like Bleak House, start with one of
his wonderful short pieces such as A Christmas Carol.
Dickens was a gifted storyteller and Bleak House is his
masterpiece. If you love to dive into a book, read and enjoy this
gem!
This is the second book by Dickens I have read so far, but it
will not be the last. "Bleak House" is long, tightly plotted,
wonderfully descriptive, and full of memorable characters. Dickens
has written a vast story centered on the Jarndyce inheritance, and
masterly manages the switches between third person omniscient
narrator and first person limited narrator. His main character
Esther never quite convinces me of her all-around goodness, but the
novel is so well-written that I just took Esther as she was
described and ran along with the story. In this book a poor boy
(Jo) will be literally chased from places of refuge and thus
provide Dickens with one of his most powerful ways to indict a
system that was particularly cruel to children. Mr. Skimpole,
pretending not to be interested in money; Mr. Jarndyce, generous
and good; Richard, stupid and blind; the memorable Dedlocks, and My
Lady Dedlock's secret being uncovered by the sinister Mr.
Tulkinghorn; Mrs. Jellyby and her telescopic philanthropy; the
Ironmaster described in Chapter 28, presenting quite a different
view of industralization than that shown by Dickens in his next
work, "Hard Times." Here is a veritable cosmos of people,
neighbors, friends, enemies, lovers, rivals, sinners, and saints,
and Dickens proves himself a true master at describing their lives
and the environment they dwell in. There are landmark chapters:
Chapter One must be the best description of a dismal city under
attack by dismal weather and tightly tied by perfectly dismal laws,
where the Lord Chancellor sits eternally in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
Chapter 32 has one of the eeriest scenes ever written, with
suspicious smoke, greasy and reeking, as a prelude to a grisly
discovery. Chapter 47 is when Jo cannot "move along" anymore. This
Norton Critical is perhaps the best edition of "Bleak House" so
far: the footnotes help a lot, and the two Introductions are key to
understanding the Law system at the time the action takes place,
plus Dickens' interest in this particular topic. To round
everything off, read also the criticism of our contemporaries, as
well as that of Dickens' time. "Bleak House" is a long, complex
novel that opens a window for us to another world. It is never
boring and, appearances to the contrary, is not bleak. Enjoy.
biting satire, moving melodrama, a suspenseful mystery, and
above all, dickens' wonderful imgagery: this is one of dickens'
finest books. only weakness is in the mystery theme. tulkinghorn's
stalking of lady dedlock is meant to personalize the chancery
theme, yet it's never clear why he does it - ie, how he benefits by
destroying the marriage of his client, leicester dedlock. the
motivation of the barrister's killer is also somewhat forced.
otherwise, a great book.
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