Started: 12/28/06
Finished: 1/5/07
Year: 1994 (this edition) originally published 1907
Pages: 797
Genre: Classic Literature
Grade: C
Reason for reading: booksfree.com
Blurb (from back cover): "Esther Summerson, one of the two narrators of Bleak House, shares in the processes of unrevelling the mystery surrounding her birth and exploring the strange connections which unite the rich and the poor, the exploiters and the exploited, the deranged and the corrupt. Hers is a journey towards painful enlightenment in which there is no turning back. For other characters enlightenment brings danger, disillusion, and death.
Bleak House is Dickens's densest study of the stark contrast and disturbing oddities implicit in the urban civilization of Victorian England.
Opinion: This is in typical Dickens' writing. Not as good as A Christmas Carol or Great Expectations but still worth picking up and taking a gander.
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