Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 : 9782491704858
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (48 download)
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Download or read book Bleak House: by Charles Dickens Hardback Book Dickins Hardcover Hard Cover Charls Books Classics written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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[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.