September 26, 2021 – February 27, 2022 from 1:00-3:00 PM (Pacific) | Hybrid Events
Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork, Bleak House. Join Professor John O. Jordan (Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director) for a series of discussions about his favorite Dickens novel.
September 25, 2021
Installments I-V, Chapters 1-16
Discussion Facilitator: John Jordan (UC Santa Cruz)
October 24, 2021
Installments VI-X, chapters 17-32
Discussion Facilitator: John Jordan (UC Santa Cruz)
November 28, 2021
Installments XI-XV, chapters 33-49
Discussion Facilitator: John Jordan (UC Santa Cruz)
January 23, 2022
Installments XVI-XX, chapters 50-67
Discussion Facilitator: John Jordan (UC Santa Cruz)
February 27, 2022
Concluding Overview
Discussion Facilitator: John Jordan (UC Santa Cruz)
Preparation for the Discussion: The meetings for Bleak House will be a hybrid of in-person attendance and Zoom attendance.
Recommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, but other versions are fine. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org.
The Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship, is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
