Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Oct. 15, 2018)
Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20 episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because a testator has written several conflicting wills. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens claimed there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. One such was probably the Thellusson v Woodford case in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens's satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.
- Series
- Charles Dickens books collection (Book 6)
- ISBN
- 1727797973 / 9781727797978
- Pages
- 380
- Weight
- 28.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 0.9 in.
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