Category: Bleak House

  • Dickens’s new blue plaque up

    Here's a nice photo of it. Interestingly, the plaque states that James Wood, founder of the…

  • ‘Bleak House’ in the spotlight

    Mystery novelist Margot Kinberg writes about Bleak House as part of the "In the Spotlight" feature…

  • The heart of ‘Bleak House’

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen talks about why Bleak House is a "book of a lifetime."

  • Of law and lawyers

    Dickens shows up twice on the ABA Journal's list of the 25 Greatest Law Novels Ever.…

  • Ditch the trashy romance novels

    An article at Bloomberg.com names Bleak House one of the best classic beach novels.

  • What a bore

    Did Dickens invent the word boredom? It seems he did, in Bleak House. Strange for a…

  • Bravo develops ‘Bleak House’ update

    Cable network Bravo is developing a new series called Fortune, inspired by Bleak House but set…

  • Whoops!

    About that Dickens letter that was going up for auction — it turns out to be…

  • Podcasting Dickens

    The other day I did a podcast with Emily Whitten of Redeemed Reader and Rea Berg…

  • ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’ (1994): A review

    By Nina S., guest blogger Martin Chuzzlewit is one of Dickens' lesser-known, or at least lesser-read,…