Novel Study: Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum invites you to our upcoming novel study of Bleak House by Charles Dickens, led by Folio librarian Lillian Dabney.

The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th century London. A savage, but often comic indictment of society, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most critically admired novels written at the apex of his literary career and features one of his most vast and varied cast of colorful characters.

The novel is also a bold experimental narrative that unforgettably dramatizes our most basic human conflicts. We'll read his amazing novel over 6 sessions:  

• May 13 Chapters 1-10

• May 20  Chapters 11-22