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En la historia de la literatura son contados los escritores capaces de crear con su pluma todo un mundo coherente, con sus ciudades, sus calles, sus paisajes y sus gentes, ricas y pobres; Charles Dickens (1812-1870) pertenece sin duda a esa casta privilegiada. A pesar de haber sufrido una infancia desdichada en la que se vio obligado a trabajar en una fábrica, su tesón y talento le llevaron finalmente al éxito social. Con la aparición de Los papeles del club Pickwick (1837), su primera obra, Dickens se convirtió rápidamente en el escritor de moda. Después vendrían las novelas Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Oliver Twist (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Little Dorrit (1853) y Una historia de dos ciudades (1859) entre otras.
Casa Desolada representa, para Chesterton, el punto más alto de la madurez intelectual de Dickens, su obra central. Esther Summerson, abandonada al nacer por sus padres, es la protegida de John Jarndyce, un poderoso caballero de buen corazón que lleva años pleiteando a causa de una herencia. Esther vive en la residencia de Jarndyce, Casa Desolada, desde los dieciocho años, junto con Ada y Richard, primos adolescentes de John, huérfanos e indigentes a causa de la disputada herencia, a los que éste trata de orientar en la vida. La novela gira en torno a los avatares biográficos de Esther -cuyo relato en primera persona se intercala con el del narrador-, siempre luchando por encontrar su identidad, superar su origen y triunfar socialmente. ( )
Casa Desolada (1853) representa, para Chesterton, el punto más alto de la madurez intelectual de Dickens, su obra central. Esther Summerson, abandonada al nacer por sus padres, es la protegida de John Jarndyce, un poderoso gentleman de buen corazón que lleva años pleiteando a causa de una herencia. Esther vive en la residencia de Jarndyce, Casa Desolada, desde los dieciocho años, junto con Ada y Richard, primos adolescentes de John, huérfanos e indigentes a causa de la disputada herencia, a los que éste trata de orientar en la vida. La novela gira en torno a los avatares biográficos de Esther -cuyo relato en primera persona se intercala con el del narrador-, siempre luchando por encontrar su identidad, superar su origen y triunfar socialmente.
You have to embrace Bleak House for what it is – a rambling, confusing, verbose, over-populated, vastly improbable story which substitutes caricatures for people and is full of puns. In other words, an 800-page Dickens novel.
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Dedicated, as a remembrance of our friendly union, to my companions in the guild of literature and art
Dedication of the 1853 edition
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London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
"I have never had so many readers," wrote Dickens, referring to the publication of Bleak House - the novel in which he assailed the abuses of the Court of Chancery. (Editor's Note)
A Chancery Judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the Judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. (Preface)
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This world of ours has its limits too (as Your Highness shall find when you have made the tour of it, and are come to the brink of the void beyond).
His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable. He has a general opinion that the world might get on without hills, but would be done up without Dedlocks. He would on the whole admit Nature to be a good idea (a little low, perhaps, when not enclosed with a park-fence), but an idea dependent for its execution on your great county families.
Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about, that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough, and could dispense with any more.
He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young.
He must confess to two of the oldest infirmities in the world: one was, that he had no idea of time; the other, that he had no idea of money.
It is the next difficult thing to an impossibility to imagine Chesney Wold without Mrs Rouncewell, but she has only been here fifty years.
She considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes; a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.
There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in ill humour and near knives.
The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.
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"But I know that my dearest little pets are very pretty, and that my darling is very beautiful, and that my husband is very handsome, and that my guardian has the brightest and most benevolent face that ever was seen, and that they can very well do without much beauty in me--even supposing--."
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Group Read: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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