BLEAK HOUSE

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Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had be taken to the debtors prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers his first commercial success was published in 1836. In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity America as well as Britain. He separated from his wife in 1858. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870 leaving his last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itselfJarndyce and Jardyce is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbours are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak lost children blackmail and murder.Dickenss chilling tale of murder and betrayalKafkas favourite book a tour de force that mixes grand scale and minutelyobserved perfectlyheard reality. Incomparable setpieces (that opening! spontaneous combustion!) and dialogueI keep on reading it in order to discover how to write a novelBleak House reads like an encyclopedia not only of its time and place but of usBleak House is the literatis favourite Dickens. Its one of the few stories that has modern resonance: the tale of a neverending court case can be seen if you squint as the precursor of Kafka and Orwell

Data Publikacji: 2008-05-01
Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 43 mm 671 gr