Bleak House - Charles Dickens - Books -  - 9798609834645 - February 5, 2020
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Bleak House

Bleak House 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 wrote 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[2] 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.[

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 5, 2020
ISBN13 9798609834645
Pages 686
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 35 mm   ·   902 g
Language English  

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