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Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
Charles Dickens
Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
Charles Dickens
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 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.
480 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 23, 2024 |
Original release date | 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9781714961313 |
Publishers | Blurb |
Pages | 480 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 27 mm · 698 g |
Language | English |
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