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By Elizabeth Hayes Smith - March 31, 2007

Bleak House, a novel by the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, has a number of elements: comedy, tragedy, melodrama, romance, and biting social satire. The work also includes at least ten major characters, and scores of minor ones. The novel's complexity and length lends itself quite easily to a number of critical interpretations, including…

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