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Charles Dickens, Tatiana M. Holway, Gill (RTL) Tavner, Nicola Bradbury - Bleak House

Charles Dickens, Tatiana M. Holway, Gill (RTL) Tavner, Nicola Bradbury - Bleak House

 
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The English legal system is the main object of Dickens's satire in BLEAK HOUSE, perhaps the first legal thriller, which centers on the interminable case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce as it makes its tortuous way over the generations through the Court of Chancery. The battle drags on, the litigants are ruined by the legal fees, and the case itself becomes so convoluted that no one--lawyers, judges, plaintiffs--even remembers entirely what is at stake. As Dickens takes us through the case's history, he creates his usual array of vividly realized comic, tragic, and satirical figures, from the corrupt lawyer, Tulkinghorn, to the pathetic crossing-sweeper, little Jo, to the clerk called Nemo, including characters with such wonderful monikers as Krook, Snagsby, Lord Doodle, and the perfectly named Lord and Lady Dedlock. As he does so often, Dickens shows us in BLEAK HOUSE--perhaps his most ambitious novel--that venality, corruption, and vanity have always been a part of human nature. Under the high comedy, he also sho
 
 

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Authors Tatiana M. Holway
Narrator David Case
Illustrator Hablot Knight Browne
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships
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  Bradbury, Nicola: "The strengths of BLEAK HOUSE are the integration of different structures, together with what would seem an irresistibly deconstructive impulse. The very activity of reading, paralleled to the business of detection, implicates us in the processes that are shown to be perverse. The novel holds the balance between mystery and revelation, literary creation and analytical destruction."

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Publisher: Readhowyouwant (March 14, 2009)
ISBN: 9781427039002
 

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