Sept. 2021 - Feb. 2022: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork, Bleak House.
| Date | Readings | Facilitator | Resources |
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September 26 |
Bleak House, Installments I-V, chapters 1-16 |
John Jordan, Co-Director of the Dickens Project |
Zoom Recording |
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October 24 |
Bleak House, Installments VI-X, chapters 17-32 |
John Jordan, Co-Director of the Dickens Project |
Zoom Recording |
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November 28 |
Bleak House, Installments XI-XV, chapters 33-49 |
John Jordan, Co-Director of the Dickens Project |
Zoom Recording |
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January 23 |
Bleak House, Installments XVI-XX, chapters 50-67 |
John Jordan, Co-Director of the Dickens Project |
Zoom Recording |
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February 27 |
Bleak House concluding overview |
John Jordan, Co-Director of the Dickens Project |
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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 Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
