Book Description
Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
"Bleak House" is a story of love and inheritance, and its graphic depiction of the realities and costs of High Court legal actions, drawn from the author's personal experience still have relevance. The atmosphere, places and events are described with a perceptive eye.
Amazon.com
Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Charles Dickens, published serially in 1852-53 and in book form in 1853. Considered by some critics to be the author's best work, Bleak House is the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money from a disputed fortune in the settlement of the lawsuit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce. It is pointedly critical of England's Court of Chancery, in which cases could drag on through decades of convoluted legal maneuvering.
From Library Journal
Bleak House is such a natural for audio that it comes as no surprise to read in Peter Ackroyd's biography of Dickens that he himself read it aloud to Wilkie Collins and his own family. No matter how good he was as a readerAand he did go on to present public readings regularly after thisADickens could not have performed better than Robert Whitfield does here. With a motley cast of characters to challenge the skill of any narrator, his brilliant dramatizations range from a homeless street urchin to an arrogant barrister, from a canny old windbag to a high-minded heroine who deserves the happy ending Dickens affords her. Whitfield is also as persuasive as the indignant voice of the author himself, attacking both the injustice of the law and the cruel indifference of society. This may be one of the most Dickensian novels Dickens ever wrote. Highly recommended.AJo Carr, Sarasota, FL
About Author
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was born in Portsmouth, England, one of eight children, grew up in poverty, had little formal education, and yet became the most prominent and revered English Victorian writer as well as a journalist.
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length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
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想要读完一本书是需要体力的，或许还有勇气 在外文买的这本bleak house属于a bantam classic系列 818页的小字儿，67个章节，大段大段的artful narrative 还没读完，那些精巧的描述让我头疼，这也是我很少看小说的原因之一 一个dickens站提供的资料及相关链接，不过我觉得读...
评分想要读完一本书是需要体力的，或许还有勇气 在外文买的这本bleak house属于a bantam classic系列 818页的小字儿，67个章节，大段大段的artful narrative 还没读完，那些精巧的描述让我头疼，这也是我很少看小说的原因之一 一个dickens站提供的资料及相关链接，不过我觉得读...
评分想要读完一本书是需要体力的，或许还有勇气 在外文买的这本bleak house属于a bantam classic系列 818页的小字儿，67个章节，大段大段的artful narrative 还没读完，那些精巧的描述让我头疼，这也是我很少看小说的原因之一 一个dickens站提供的资料及相关链接，不过我觉得读...
评分想要读完一本书是需要体力的，或许还有勇气 在外文买的这本bleak house属于a bantam classic系列 818页的小字儿，67个章节，大段大段的artful narrative 还没读完，那些精巧的描述让我头疼，这也是我很少看小说的原因之一 一个dickens站提供的资料及相关链接，不过我觉得读...
评分想要读完一本书是需要体力的，或许还有勇气 在外文买的这本bleak house属于a bantam classic系列 818页的小字儿，67个章节，大段大段的artful narrative 还没读完，那些精巧的描述让我头疼，这也是我很少看小说的原因之一 一个dickens站提供的资料及相关链接，不过我觉得读...
用户评价
Quite easy to read: easier than hard times.
评分据说这是法学院一年级学生该读的三本小说之一。
评分Too winded.
评分Kindle 读完的第8本书，每小时3%左右，看狄更斯的小说总是看得见人性的美好。
评分毋庸置疑是狄更斯最好的一本小说。也是英美法国家的许多法学院讲衡平法与法律史的指定阅读书目，其对英国司法体系描写深刻可见一斑。可惜也是出于同种原因，这部对非英美法国家的读者来说太难啃，加之篇幅冗长，始终没有狄更斯的其他作品那么流行。
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