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Charles Dickens Bleak House

Satire
English
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Ages 8 and up
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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between £60,000 and £70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judicial system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleak House (Annotated)

Illustrated

Fiction
English
353830 Words
Ages 6 and up
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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. Includes all 40 illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between £60,000 and £70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleak House By Charles Dickens

Fiction
English
353054 Words
No Age Recommendation
248
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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 so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the "parsimony of the public," which guilty public, it appeared, had been until lately bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery judges appointed—I believe by Richard the Second, but any other king will do as well. [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleak House (Illustrated)

Language & Literature
English
353219 Words
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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between £60,000 and £70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judicial system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticised Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as Chancery was reforming itself, with the Six Clerks and Masters mentioned in Chapter One abolished in 1842 and 1852 respectively: the need for further reform was being widely debated.[1] These facts raise an issue as to when Bleak House is actually set. Technically it must be before 1842, and at least some of his readers at the time would have been aware of this. However, there is some question as to whether this timeframe is consistent with the themes of the novel. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth set the action in 1827. [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleak House

Fiction
English
353532 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.[1] During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleak House (fiscle part-III)

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
2
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.[1] During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.[2][3] [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleak House (fiscle part-III)

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.[1] During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.[2][3] [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleak House (fiscle part-III)

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.[1] During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.[2][3] [more]

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Charles Dickens Bleakhaus

Fiction
German
336919 Words
No Age Recommendation
205
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Das Werk "Bleak House" ist der neunte Roman von Charles Dickens. Der Roman, der in den 1820er Jahren spielt, erschien von März 1852 bis September 1853 in 20 Fortsetzungen. Jede Folge enthielt zwei Illustrationen von Phiz und kostete einen Shilling, die beiden letzten Folgen wurden zusammen veröffentlicht und kosteten zwei Shilling. Die Rahmenhandlung bildet ein viele Jahre anhaltender Erbschaftsstreit Jarndyce gegen Jarndyce. Dickens erzählt hierbei die Geschichte vieler Menschen, die direkt und indirekt mit dem Fall verbunden sind. Dabei werden in den vielen Erzählsträngen die Personen und Geschichten immer mehr miteinander verwoben. Neben einem omnipräsenten Erzähler, erzählt auch "Esther Summerson", eine der Hauptfiguren im Roman, Teile des Romans aus ihrer Sicht der Ich-Erzählung. Bleak House ist einerseits ein Gesellschaftsroman, der das Leben vor allem der englischen Oberschicht sowie ihrer Beziehungen zur Mittel- und Unterschicht im 19. Jahrhundert charakterisiert, andererseits eine satirische Abrechnung mit dem englischen Rechtssystem, insbesondere dem Court of Chancery, der unter anderem Erbschaftsstreitigkeiten regelte. In den letzten Kapiteln enthält das Buch auch Elemente eines Kriminalromans. [more]

Keywords: charles dickens, bleakhaus, bleak house, bleakhouse, oliver twist, david copperfield, geschichte aus zwei städten, große erwartungen, weihnachtsgeschichte, tale of two cities, great expectations, christmas carol

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John Forster Charles Dickens' Leben Band 3

1850 - 1870

Biography & Autobiography
German
68694 Words
Ages 12 and up
228
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Detailliert und wohlinformiert als langjähriger Biograf schildert John Forster Leben und Schreiben des Erfolgsautors Charles Dickens in drei umfassenden Bänden. Band 3: David Copperfield und Bleak House (1850 – 1853). Häusliche Vorgänge und Harte Zeiten (1853 – 1855). Neuer Aufenthalt in der Schweiz und in Italien (1853). Drei Sommer in Boulogne. (1853, 1854 und 1856). Aufenthalt in Paris (1855 – 1856). Klein Dorrit und eine müßige Tour (1855 – 1857). Was sich um diese Zeit begab (1857 – 1858). Gadshill Place (1856 – 1870). Die ersten bezahlten Vorlesungen (1858 – 1859). All the Year Round und der Ungeschäftliche Reisende (1859 – 1861). Die zweite Reihe von Vorlesungen (1861 – 1863). Winke für geschriebene und ungeschriebene Bücher (1855 – 1865). Die dritte Reihe der Vorlesungen (1864 – 1867). Dickens als Novellist (1836 – 1870). Neuer Besuch in Amerika: November und Dezember 1867 (1867). Neuer Besuch in Amerika: Januar bis April 1868 (1868). Die letzten Vorlesungen (1868 – 1870). Das letzte Buch (1869 – 1870). Persönliche Charakterzüge (1836 – 1870). Das Ende (1869 – 1870). Anhang. In neuer deutscher Rechtschreibung und Korrektur gelesen. [more]

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