| Bleak House Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1974375579 ISBN-13: 9781974375578 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Legal |
| Lexile Measure: 870 |
| Physical Information: 1.57" H x 6" W x 9" (2.29 lbs) 792 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between 60,000 and 70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticised Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. |