Bleak House | Bleak House
Apr.29.2012
What chilling mysteries lurk in the streets of Victorian England? The Solitary House is a historical suspense novel based on detective procedure and written to celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. In 1850, Charles Maddox, dismissed from Scotland Yard for insubordination, is hired by...
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Dec.03.2011
[This is one of the most powerful scene's I've read in literature. The context: Isaac, a Jewish symphony conductor, speaks to Paula, a Jewish opera singer who has lost her voice after the shock of learning details about her father’s suffering at Auschwitz.]
Isaac pounded his chest, gestured with...
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Jun.16.2010
Dear Sir:
The book my father put in my hands was heavy, musty, forbidding. The type was small. There were no pictures.
The author, my father the librarian told me, was a man named Charles Dickens, from a country called England. Dickens was a classic, and now that I had begun to read, my father...
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Dec.30.2008
The novel that spoke to the year 2007 and 2008 is Dickens's Bleak House. I agree with Edmund Wilson that Bleak House is a masterpiece; the novel is the greatest written by a Englishperson.
Dickens in his novel was describing England in the 1840s as a Bleak House, a nation dominated by corruption as...
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