Sept. 2021 – Feb. 2022: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Sep. 26, Oct. 24, Nov. 28, Jan. 23, and Feb. 27 at 2:00-4:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Event
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.
Reading Schedule
| Sep. 26 | Installments I-V, Chapters 1-16 |  |
| Oct. 24 | Installments VI-X, chapters 17-32 | |
| Nov. 28 | Installments XI-XV, chapters 33-49 | |
| Jan. 23 | Installments XVI-XX, chapters 50-67 | |
| Feb. 27 | Concluding overview | |
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.
