5/25/2023 0 Comments Bleak House by Charles Dickens![]() ![]() Neither house appears in the novel for any length of time, and, of all the novel's many architectural spaces, they are the least bleak of all, and the ones of which least can be said. ![]() But if you look at Bleak House in this light, the first thing you notice is how small a part is played by the two houses named “Bleak House.” The first Bleak House is John Jarndyce's blandly serene Hertfordshire home where Esther Summerson lives with the wards of Chancery, Ada and Richard the second is the equally peaceful Yorkshire cottage Jarndyce prepares for Esther and her husband Allan Woodcourt. Many novels are named after the house where the action takes place, and it is often said of novels like The Castle of Otranto, Wuthering Heights, and The House of the Seven Gables that the novel's main character is the house itself, the setting the principal agent of the narrative. ![]()
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