Bleak House

Jarndyce Vs. Jarndyce

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Krotz

Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House contains myriad plots and subplots, the foremost of these being the absurdity of a legal case that seems to have no purpose but to line the pockets of lawyers.

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10 Best Victorian Detective Stories

The Guardian | James McCreet | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sherlock Holmes and his predecessor, Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin, were always fantasy detectives. Their powers of deduction often bordered on the ...

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Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Krotz

The message of Bleak House is that a lawsuit is the end of reason and not as we presuppose, the beginning of reasoned argument.

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