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BLEAK HOUSE 📚: with Stephen Fry

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

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The Law of the Chancery Court by John Dickens

Dickens was a journalist who covered the law, courts as well as parliament. And so he did have a really deep understanding of how this incredibly complex and incomprehensible world was run. We meet jarndyce when he is appointed a ward of these two wards in chancery. They are both potential beneficiaries of the money from the will if the case get solved. He tells them with absolute clarity and certainty that they must never involve themselves in the case. It's an image of the court case itself. A young man with ideals, but also ambition and hope, is slowly sucked into something he doesn't quite understandits it's the equivalent of him. Of course, it had given

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