“As all partings foreshadow the great, final one – so empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.” -Charles Dickens, Bleak House “Bleak House” This original artwork was first painted with acrylic paint and india ink on muslin canvas. Sweet Sequels reproduction prints are printed professionally on acid free, fine art paper with archival pigment-based inks. They are printed and shipped directly from my home studio. Prints come in three sizes: 13×19, 8.5×11, or 5×7. All sizes are ready for standard frames. No custom framing needed. 8.5×11 and 5×7 sizes include a border for framing and are printed on textured fine art paper. They come signed. These sizes come packaged in a clear sleeve with sturdy chipboard backing, and will be mailed in a rigid mailer. The 13×19 size is printed on high quality matte poster paper, and ships separately in a cardboard tube. It is not signed. Please note that the color resolution on your screen may appear different than on print.

'Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs...' As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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I’ve reached the half-way mark in my odyssey through the novels of Charles Dickens – his most ambitious work, and the one which is widely held to be his masterpiece: Bleak House. Dicken…

I’ve reached the half-way mark in my odyssey through the novels of Charles Dickens – his most ambitious work, and the one which is widely held to be his masterpiece: Bleak House. Dicken…

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