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Bleak House Summary
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Bleak House -- Adobe PDF ebook. Charles Dickens’s classic work. |
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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. |
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| I said it with a stronger heart, for when he praised me thus and when I heard his voice thrill with his belief that what he said was true, I aspired to be more worthy of it. It was not too late for that. Although I closed this unforeseen page in my life to-night, I could be worthier of it all through my life. And it was a comfort to me, and an impulse to me, and I felt a dignity rise up within me that was derived from him when I thought so. |
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| Dicken's magnificent sprawling novel is a potent attack on 19th century English society and considered by many to be his finest work. |
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| The original idea for Bleak House, Dickens' attack on abuses in the Courts of Chancery, began with an article in Household Words entitled "Martyrs in Chancery." Modern criticism considers Bleak House one of the most important novels of nineteenth century England. Dickens creates a stable of unforgettable characters including Jo, the unfortunate street sweeper who inhabits the desolate monument to Chancery ineptitude, Tom-all-Alones; Miss Flite, the pathetic but hilarious Chancery lunatic; Mr. Turveydrop, the Model of Deportment, and Inspector Bucket, the first police detective in English fiction. |
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Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation. |
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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...
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Chapter One In Chancery London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus,forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn-hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes-gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly... |
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Introduction by Barbara Hardy From the Hardcover edition. |
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Måske den mest komplekse af alle Dickens romaner, hvis mange historielinier vikles ind og ud af hinanden undervejs, når personerne mødes ved tilfældets eller skæbnens spil. Et gennemgående tema er den endeløse arvesag Jarndyce kontra Jarndyce, et satirisk eksempel på, hvordan en retssag kan trækkes ud i det uendelige af sagførere, hvis eneste formål er at fylde deres egne lommer. Romanens heltinde er fortælleren i en del af bogens kapitler, den forældreløse Esther Summerson, der sammen med myndlingene i Jarndyce-kontra-Jarndyce, Richard Carstone og Ada Clare, bor hos filantropen John Jarndyce. Andre linier i bogen angår sir Leicester Dedlock og hans smukke kone, der skjuler flere hemmeligheder, som familien Dedlocks sagfører stædigt søger at bringe for dagen og udnytte til at få magt over lady Dedlock, advokatfuldmægtigen Guppys forelskelse i Esther og gadedrengen Jos liv og død. Blandt de mange andre figurer, man møder undervejs, skal nævnes den barnligt uansvarlige snylter Harold Skimpole, mrs. Jellyby, hvis endeløse godgørenhed overfor en negerstamme i det centrale Afrika har fået hende til at glemme sin egen familie, den unge doktor Woodcourt, den skøre gamle miss Flite med hendes fugle, gadefejeren Jo, klude- og papirhandleren, den fordrukne Krook, der dør ved selvantændelse, familien Smallweed, den "retskafne" udsuger Vholes og ikke mindst en af litteraturens første engelske politidetektiver, inspektør Bucket. |
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