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'Bleak House' is as intriguing as the Dickens
0 Comments | USA TODAY, January, 2006 | by Dennis Moore Robert Bianco
Bleak House
PBS, Sunday, 9 p.m. ET/PT
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**** out of four --- Memories of high school required-reading lists and English class essays have put some people off Charles Dickens for good.
But seeing just a few minutes of this adaptation of Dickens' Bleak House might change their minds.
Published as a serial in the 1850s, Bleak House is among Dickens' sharpest indictments of the inequities in Victorian-era society, starting with the complex and tortuous British judicial system.
Sucked into the legal black hole of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, a dispute over an estate that has been argued in court for generations, are the young Ada Clare and Richard, possible heirs to the fortune, and Ada's companion Esther, whose unknown parentage...
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