👨🎓 School Days: Bleak House
Taking a look at the narrative strategies in an extract of the Charles Dickens classic, as well as a peek at the novel's reception in its day.
This was the first assignment of my final literature module (and final year of study). Bleak House was a hell of a tome - especially if you read as slowly as I do! - but what a story. It quickly became one of my favourite texts on the whole course. A (if not the) seminal detective story, Bleak House weaves together a vast cast of characters, all with in…