Chapter 1 (In Chancery)
The famous opening: 'London. Michaelmas Term lately over...' with the Megalosaurus waddling up Holborn Hill, and 'Fog everywhere' descending into the heart of the fog at Chancery.
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From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The novel's iconic opening establishes London as a primordial swamp of mud and fog, with the Court of Chancery at its dense center—a panoramic third-person present-tense vision unlike any opening in Victorian fiction.
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