Novel · 1853
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novel · 1853 · English · Victorian
Bleak House
A lawsuit that eats generations, told in two alternating voices.
Social novelDetective fictionLawFogInheritance
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The double narration — impersonal present tense against Esther's retrospect — makes the reader do the detective work the institutions refuse to do.
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