With a massive cast of charactersmany with ingeniously comic namesand his most complex plot, bleak house is believed by many to be dickens greatest work. Mixing romance, mystery, comedy, and satire, bleak house limits the suffering caused by the intricate inefficiency of the law. The main characters are esther, introduced as an orphan at the beginning of the novel, and the distant cousins ada clare and richard carstone. It is not the best written nor is the plot the most sophisticated but in terms of capturing whats been called a grunts eye view of the fantasy battlefield. This is a book written by charles dickens who suffered a poor childhood and had trouble with the law. I also love to listen so i can listen before bed or while taking a nap or cleaning house. The saga begins with soames forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at robin hill on which to build a house. Dickens, 1853 photograph of dickens from just after bleak house. Listen to bleak house audiobook by charles dickens.
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