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  • Many consider this to be Dickens best, and though I definitely haven't read enough of his works to put a superlative on this book, it was quite good. The book presents an excellent cross-section of societal Victorian characters, from the high to the low to the middle. These caricatures are what ma ... Continue

    Many consider this to be Dickens best, and though I definitely haven't read enough of his works to put a superlative on this book, it was quite good. The book presents an excellent cross-section of societal Victorian characters, from the high to the low to the middle. These caricatures are what makes the work great more so than the story itself. Though I would never recommend Bleak House as a first Dickens book for anyone to read, it is excellent for anyone who has previously tasted, and enjoyed, his style.

    

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  • I hated Esther Summerson. She was a horrible narrator. Completely ruined my enjoyment of this novel which, otherwise, had interesting characterizations and the extraordinary invention of the Circumlocution office.

    

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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.

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