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Bleak House
Charles Dickens
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 comes 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
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 7, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9798587020160 |
| Pages | 254 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 280 × 13 mm · 594 g |
| Language | English |