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Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics), Paperback / softback Book

Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics) Paperback / softback

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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.

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