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Join the roomBleak House é um romance do autor inglês Charles Dickens, publicado pela primeira vez como um seriado de 20 episódios entre 12 de março de 1852 e 12 de setembro de 1853. O romance tem muitos personagens e vários subenredos, e é narrado parcialmente pela heroína do romance, Esther Summerson, e parcialmente por um narrador onisciente. No centro de Bleak House está um caso jurídico de longa duração no Tribunal de Chancelaria, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, que surge porque um testador escreveu vários testamentos conflitantes. Em um prefácio à primeira edição de 1853, Dickens disse que havia muitos precedentes reais para seu caso fictício. Um deles foi provavelmente Thellusson v Woodford, no qual um testamento lido em 1797 foi contestado e não foi determinado até 1859. Embora muitos na profissão jurídica tenham criticado a sátira de Dickens como exagerada, Bleak House ajudou a apoiar um movimento de reforma judicial que culminou na promulgação de reforma legal na década de 1870.
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“London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.”
““She means well,” said Mr. Jarndyce hastily. “The wind’s in the east.” “It was in the north, sir, as we came down,” observed Richard. “My dear Rick,” said Mr. Jarndyce, poking the fire, “I’ll take an oath it’s either in the east or going to be. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.””
““I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!””
““Don’t you be afraid of hurting the boy,” he says.”
““Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, ‘I never whitened a hair of her dear head—I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!’ For of all the many things that you can think of when you are a man, you had better have by you, Woolwich!””
““Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.””
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
