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    Bleak House
    Bleak House
    Bleak House
    Audiobook38 hours

    Bleak House

    Written by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Mil Nicholson

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    Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay, draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience.

    But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSNR Audio
    Release dateDec 2, 2021
    ISBN9781914230219
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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      If you love Charles Dickenson just read the book and make up your mind. I think it's a very passionate, tragic, mysterious, politically loaded, and society judging story. I think it's brilliant. You may not, but I do.