Bleak House is regarded as one of Charles Dickens' best achievements - the greatest ever depiction of Victorian London. From its glittering heights to its very lowest depths; a skilfully crafted ...

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In the middle of Bleak House, the heroine, an orphan named Esther Summerson, gets smallpox and goes blind. The first time I read the novel I was so shocked and upset by this turn of events that I ...

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So, reluctantly, we come to the end of Bleak House. After being immersed for so long, it feels like parting from an old friend. Wise, witty, hilarious, fantastic, mawkish, strange, wonderful Dickens.

In Chapter 31 of Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House,” Esther Summerson realizes that the young girl who is sitting with her, Charley, is very sick. Esther knows that both she and Charley, who works in the ...

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