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Bleak House, published serially from 1852 to 1853, is a novel by Charles Dickens that explores themes of social class, justice, and the nature of identity.The novel is narrated by Esther Summerson, a young woman who is raised by her godmother and who eventually becomes embroiled in a long-running legal case known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
This is a very clever book because the main issue with it is exactly the point Dickens is making: it is so long and dragged out. Bleak House is quite the achievement. It's a 900+ page monster made up a thousand different subplots with a large cast of characters.
Bleak House is set in the mid-1800s and addresses several issues which would have been relevant and familiar to his Victorian audience. The novel’s philanthropist characters, like Mrs. Pardiggle and Mr. Quale, reflect the 19th-century vogue for social engagement in charitable causes and the fashion among middle-class people for social organization.
PREFACE . A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge’s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or ...
Jul 5, 2012 · Bleak House was the 9 th novel of Charles Dickens. The novel was first published in installments from March 1852 through September 1853. It was issued as one volume in 1853.
初版本表紙。 『荒涼館』（こうりょうかん、Bleak House）は、チャールズ・ディケンズの長編小説。 1852年3月から1853年9月にかけて、月々20回に分けて分冊のかたちで刊行されたものである。
Jan 23, 2021 · Dickens’s ninth novel, published in monthly parts in 1852–53, with illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne, issued in one volume in 1853. Often characterized as the first of the late novels, Bleak House describes England as a bleak house, devastated by an irresponsible and self-serving legal system, symbolically represented by the Lord Chancellor ensconced in foggy…
