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Bleak House

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Author: Charles Dickens First published: 1852-53, by Bradbury and Evans WARNING: Plot spoiler Bleak House is Dickens’s great indictment on the Victorian legal system, but also his critique of a world that refuses to endorse love in anything but its most conventional and socially-acceptable forms. As in all of Dickens’s novels, there are many stories [...]

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Nicholas Nickleby

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Author: Charles Dickens First published: 1838-39, by Chapman and Hall Nicholas Nickleby is not my favorite book by Dickens. In fact, it is one of my least favorite books by Dickens. But it is an extremely important book in Dickens’s career because, though he was already quite famous when it was first published in 1839, [...]

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