5/9/2023 0 Comments Bleak house book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In that year he began writing Bleak House, in which he sought to capture, through formal and stylistic experimentation, the density and complexity of 19th-century London. ![]() And the events of 1851-the halfway point of the century, and of Dickens’s career-pressed him toward an artistic evolution. Unlike the many orphans, infants, and laborers who in his novels perish unloved and unwanted, Dickens lived on into middle age. His critical reputation would be less sturdy, and snobbish professors would dismiss him as largely a storyteller for children. We would notice his sentiment more, and his social mission less. But our sense of Dickens, and the century that produced him, would be altered. Readers left with only his early works would have eight full-length novels to savor, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield, as well as a tottering stack of novellas, stories, and travel writing. He would still be famous, though perhaps less so than he is now. Suppose Charles Dickens had died in 1850, at age 38-perhaps in a railway accident like the crash, in 1865, that killed 10 of his fellow passengers and left his nerves permanently frayed or, more fantastically, from spontaneous combustion, as befell the booze-soaked rag seller in his 1853 novel, Bleak House. ![]()
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