Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's...
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Cover -- Contents -- Extra Illustrations -- Introduction -- Note on the Composition and Text -- A Chronology of Charles Dickens -- A Map of London in the 1850s -- A Map of the Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery -- BLEAK HOUSE -- Dedication -- Preface, 1853 -- Contents -- 1. In Chancery -- 2. In Fashion -- 3. A Progress -- 4. Telescopic Philanthropy -- 5. A Morning Adventure -- 6. Quite at Home -- 7. The Ghost's Walk -- 8. Covering a Multitude of Sins -- 9. Signs and Tokens -- 10. The Law-writer -- 11. Our Dear Brother -- 12. On the Watch -- 13. Esther's Narrative -- 14. Deportment -- 15. Bell Yard -- 16. Tom-all-alone's -- 17. Esther's Narrative -- 18. Lady Dedlock -- 19. Moving on -- 20. A New Lodger -- 21. The Smallweed Family -- 22. Mr Bucket -- 23. Esther's Narrative -- 24. An Appeal Case -- 25. Mrs Snagsby sees it all -- 26. Sharpshooters -- 27. More Old Soldiers than one -- 28. The Ironmaster -- 29. The Young Man -- 30. Esther's Narrative -- 31. Nurse and Patient -- 32. The Appointed Time -- 33. Interlopers -- 34. A Turn of the Screw -- 35. Esther's Narrative -- 36. Chesney Wold -- 37. Jarndyce and Jarndyce -- 38. A Struggle -- 39. Attorney and Client -- 40. National and Domestic -- 41. In Mr Tulkinghorn's Room -- 42. In Mr Tulkinghorn's Chambers -- 43. Esther's Narrative -- 44. The Letter and the Answer -- 45. In Trust -- 46. Stop him! -- 47. Jo's Will -- 48. Closing in -- 49. Dutiful Friendship -- 50. Esther's Narrative -- 51. Enlightened -- 52. Obstinacy -- 53. The Track -- 54. Springing a Mine -- 55. Flight -- 56. Pursuit -- 57. Esther's Narrative -- 58. A Wintry Day and Night -- 59. Esther's Narrative -- 60. Perspective -- 61. A Discovery -- 62. Another Discovery -- 63. Steel and Iron -- 64. Esther's Narrative -- 65. Beginning the World -- 66. Down in Lincolnshire -- 67. The Close of Esther's Narrative -- List of Illustrations.
