Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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Bleak House may well be the finest literary work to come out of nineteenth-century England. In no other Victorian novel is the narrative more artful, the cast of characters more engaging, the satire more biting,the range of life more wonderfully vast. A miracle of authorial creation, the book is constructed around three great themes: the High Court of Chancery,whose endless litigation of Jarndyce and Jarndyce symbolizes the murky institutional fog surrounding all England; the theme of misplaced

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NABOKOV ON BLEAK HOUSE: Excerpts from Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov Preface to the Charles Dickens Edition Preface to the First Edition (I)* 1. In Chancery 2. In Fashion 3. A Progress 4. Telescopic Philanthropy (II) 5. A Morning Adventure 6. Quite at Home 7. The Ghost"s Walk (III) 8. Covering a Multitude of Sins 9. Signs and Tokens 10. The Law-Writer (IV) 11. Our Dear Brother 12. On the Watch 13. Esther"s Narrative (v) 14. Deportment 15. Bell Yard 16. Tom-all-Alone" s (VI) 17. Esther"s Narrative 18. Lady Dedlock 19. Moving On (VII) 20. A New Lodger 21. The Smallweed Family 22. Mr. Bucket (VⅢ) 23. Esther"s Narrative 24. An Appeal Case 25. Mrs. Snagsby Sees It All (IX) 26. Sharpshooters 27. More Old Soldiers Than One 28. The lronmaster 29. The Young Man (x) 30. Esther"s Narrative 31. Nurse and Patient 32. The Appointed Time (XI) 33. Interlopers 34. A Turn of the Screw 35. Esther" s Narrative (xII) 36. Chesney Wold 37. Jarndyce and Jarndyce 38. A Struggle ……