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Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is particularly sweet. The articulate reading by the acclaimed British actor Paul Scofield, whose distinctive broad English accent lends just the right degree of sonority and humor to the text, brings out the color in this classic social commentary disguised as a Victorian drama. However, to abridge Dickens is, well, a Dickensian task, the results of which make for a story in which the author's convoluted plot lines and twists of fate play out in what seems to be a fast-forward format. Listeners must pay close attention in order to keep up with the multiple narratives and cast of curious characters, including the memorable Inspector Bucket and Mr. Guppy. Fortunately, the publisher provides a partial list of characters on the inside jacket. (Running time: 3 hours; 2 cassettes)
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Bleak House is such a natural for audio that it comes as no surprise to read in Peter Ackroyd's biography of Dickens that he himself read it aloud to Wilkie Collins and his own family. No matter how good he was as a readerAand he did go on to present public readings regularly after thisADickens could not have performed better than Robert Whitfield does here. With a motley cast of characters to challenge the skill of any narrator, his brilliant dramatizations range from a homeless street urchin to an arrogant barrister, from a canny old windbag to a high-minded heroine who deserves the happy ending Dickens affords her. Whitfield is also as persuasive as the indignant voice of the author himself, attacking both the injustice of the law and the cruel indifference of society. This may be one of the most Dickensian novels Dickens ever wrote. Highly recommended.AJo Carr, Sarasota, FL
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Hörkassette .
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Hörkassette .
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After years without picking up a novel by Dickens (memories of starchy classes at school), I decided to plunge into "Bleak House", a novel that had been sitting on my bookshelf for about ten years, waiting to be read. Although I found it heavy going at first, mainly because the style is so unfamiliar to modern readers, after about ten pages I was swept up and carried off, unable to put the hefty tome down until I had finished it. This book is a definite classic. The sheer scope of the tale, the wit of the satire (which could still be applied to many legal proceedings today) and the believable characters gripped me up until the magnificent conclusion. One particularly striking thing is the "cinematic" aspect of certain chapters as they switch between different angles, building up to a pitch that leaves the reader breathless. I can't recommend "Bleak House" too highly. And I won't wait so long before reading more Dickens novels.
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The one great priciple of English Law according to Dickens is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Only when viewed by this light does the legal system become a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze we are apt to think it. Let the public clearly perceive that its grand principle (Dickens says), "is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble." Obtaining a decision in Court was likely to be frustratingly slow and expensive as Dickens discovered in 1844 when he launched suits against five piratical publishers for breach of copyright. As he complained in a letter, "I was really treated as if I were the robber instead of the robbed." Although Dickens won the suit, it cost him more than any damages he was able to collect and he resolved never again to become involved in dealing with Chancery, remarking bitterly in 1846 that "it is better to suffer a great wrong than to have recourse to the much greater wrong of the law." Ultimately, he got his revenge, as writers often do, by publishing in 1852, Bleak House, his novel, about, among other things, the law's delay, and the human consequences thereof. The story evolves around the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a law suit which in the course of time became so complicated that no man alive knew what it meant. The parties to it understood it least and the only way it could end, it did end: consumed in costs. Along the way to this pitiable end, the reader gets to know some wonderful characters who do amazing and interesting things, in an authentically described landscape of a polluted nineteenth century London. If you haven't experienced this great classic yet, I advise you to do so. You are in for a great treat.
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When I first picked up Bleak House, I was daunted by its size. As I read, I found each page was filled with "maximum complexity with maximum conciseness," housing a great deal of character and setting details and descriptions. However, the novel proved to be full of clever satire, which I later found out to be directed at the High Courts of Chancery and lawyers of England. The character descriptions in the book are fantastic, and the witty satire borderlines the same genius. Perhaps my favorite part of the book is the character of Mrs. Jellyby who is so concerned with foreign aid (what Dickens calls 'Telescopic Philanthropy' as a title of the fourth chapter) that she neglects her children. Her dirty and mistreated son Peepy gets his head stuck in bars in the stairs and then falls down them, only for Mrs. Jellyby to continue a conversation. Dickens' satirical look at many things in the book make it what I think is the best Dickens I have read so far in my life.
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Bleak House
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englischen Gesellschaft der Ära von Charles Dickens. Lesen Sie weiter...
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Vor 16 Monaten von Robert Schmidt veröffentlicht
Seifenoper vor der Erfindung des TVs
Obwohl es keinen anderen Autoren gelingt ein so umfangreiches Bild von Charackteren zu zeichnen, wie Dickens, sind seine guten Characktere zu gut, um war zu sein. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. März 2001 veröffentlicht
My Favorite Dickens Novel...So Far, Anyway!
I've only read eight of Dickens's novels so far, but this is by far my favorite. It's so very rich! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. April 2000 von Lauryn Angel-cann
Adventure, Comedy, andTragedy.
When I first read "Bleak House" (1853) I thought it was slow reading. When I finished it and saw how everything came together, I considered it a phenomenal masterpiece. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. April 2000 von Sean Ares Hirsch
Dark, compelling, and quite unique
It opens with one of the finest descriptive passages in literature - a depiction of the London fog and dirt. And, out of this seemingly primeval slime, the characters emerge. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Januar 2000 von The Baker Street Irregular
A very worthwhile torture.
Reading Bleak House was one of the hardest but most worthwhile tasks I have understaken in a long time. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. April 1999 veröffentlicht
An extraordinary construct of the human imagination.
...for anyone ever caught in the toils of the legal system, this is a brilliant cautionary tale...Not only does Dickens fill the pages with his usual vast cast of amazing... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Read. Enjoy. Think.
Bleak House delves into morals and mores of a society that is, in many ways, unimaginably different from our own. Or is it? We still have throw-away children (like Jo). Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
Dickens Best and Hardest
This is Dickens best novel, the satire is very funny and the Characters are all very interesting. He occasionaly falls into his normal trap of treating women as shallow air heads . Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
Dickens's greatest novel
"Bleak House" may well be Dickens's greatest novel. Among other famous writers, Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov both thought so. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Januar 1998 von wjg@brooktrout.com
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