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Bleak House is a major novel of Charles Dickens and was published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. Half recounted by the heroine, Esther Summerson, and half by an omniscient narrator, Bleak House is fairly complex, with many characters and sub-plots all tied together by a particular Chancery suit — that is, a civil suit ...
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Bleak House: With Anna Maxwell Martin, Carey Mulligan, Denis Lawson, Gillian Anderson. A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the ...
- Charles Dickens, George Harry Ford, Sylvère Monod
- 1852
YMMV /. Bleak House. Alternate Character Interpretation: A criticism that is almost as old as the book itself is that rather than the modest humble, honest narrator Dickens intended Esther to be, she comes across as unbearably pious, priggish, disingenuous and self-serving.
Tropes used in Bleak House include: Adaptation Distillation : The 2005 miniseries, which removed many of the numerous side characters and condensed the story (even an eight-hour adaptation has to trim for a 800-plus page novel!), whilst maintaining the original motives and storylines and the aesthetics of the novel.
