Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics) - Charles Dickens - Books - Blurb - 9781714961313 - August 23, 2024
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Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics)

Charles Dickens

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Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics)

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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