| Bleak House, Volume II (Esprios Classics) Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1714961311 ISBN-13: 9781714961313 Publisher: Blurb OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2024 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6" W x 9" (1.54 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
