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Bleak House by Charles Dickens β book review
While the first few chapters of Bleak House are rather entertaining, the fifty chapters that follow? Not so much. There is a lot of βjumble and jargonβ going on in Bleak House. Having genuinely loved Great Expectations I am rather disappointment by this novel. The humour present in Bleak House consists mostly in the narrative…
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