Book · 2012 · Fiction
Bleak House
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Um last year I think or the year before I read um Bleak House uh which was to me sort of per perfect like winter vacation reading.
The best things said about it
Let's say proust tolstoys who are in peace dervantes moby dick and dickens bleak house.
Tyler Cowen EconTalk · Apr 2022 His great novel, Bleak House, the first line, the first sentence of that book is one word long.
Where and when it comes up
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4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Bleak House by Charles Dickens is an expansive and intricate Victorian masterpiece known for its biting social satire, dense plot, and a memorable opening sentence that drops the main verb to create a powerful rhetorical effect. Pamela Paul recommended the novel on The Book Review, recalling it as perfect winter vacation reading, while Tyler Cowen included it among his top five recommended novels on EconTalk and discussed it further on Conversations with Tyler. Mark Forsyth also brought up the novel on How I Write to illustrate brilliant stylistic choices, specifically analyzing how its famous one-word opening sentence sets a tone of immediate narrative immersion. Additionally, Annie Jacobsen named Bleak House as one of her absolute favorite novels when asked about her literary preferences. Listeners and commentators frequently return to the book not only for its grand scope and scathing critique of the British legal system through the endless case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, but also for Dickens's unmatched mastery of atmosphere, character development, and stylistic innovation that continues to influence writers and captivate readers across generations.
Every mention
Tyler Cowen let's say proust tolstoys who are in peace dervantes moby dick and dickens bleak house 2
“COWEN: Dickens’s Bleak House.”
“let's say proust tolstoys who are in peace dervantes moby dick and dickens bleak house”
Pamela Paul um last year I think or the year before I read um Bleak House uh which was to me sort of per perfect like w… 1
“um last year I think or the year before I read um Bleak House uh which was to me sort of per perfect like winter vacation reading”
Annie Jacobsen What's your favorite novel? Moby Dick or Blee House if I had to say. 1
“What's your favorite novel? Moby Dick or Blee House if I had to say.”
Mark Forsyth His great novel, Bleak House, the first line, the first sentence of that book is one word long. 1
“His great novel, Bleak House, the first line, the first sentence of that book is one word long.”
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Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I love bleak house. Um, it was so depressing. So depressing.”
“Charles Dickens had uh created a detective who became an important character in his novel Bleak House”
“and I you know anyone who's read Bleak House or interested in the law just you know the books that take place in the legal system”
“it was there that I started the habit I think with Bleak House which I read by the fire”