In Bleak House, the most prominent target of Dickinsonian scrutiny is Chancery Court, which dealt with issues such as wills, mortgages, and trusts. Often, his novels highlighted some social ill or injustice-child labor, unhealthy environmental conditions, a rigid class system, the debilitating effects of poverty. I decided to write down a few things that struck me about the book and share them here.īleak House, like pretty much all of Dickens’ novels, was set in nineteenth-century England, a time of great social upheaval.
It was nice that such a wide variety of people, each with a unique perspective, life story, and knowledge base, reflected together on a classic text. I was part of an online discussion group sponsored by the Catherine Project, a forum for studying books that have “richness, depth, and lasting value.” Every Tuesday for 20 weeks, 8 or 9 of us from all around the US and Canada met to talk about three or four chapters.
Only available as part of our 3 for £33 Penguin Clothbound Classics collection.I recently finished reading Charles Dickens’ marvelous novel Bleak House. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper.
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