Bleak House (100 Copy Collector's Edition)
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Royal Classics |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 1772268399 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781772268393 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Download or read book Bleak House (100 Copy Collector's Edition) written by Charles Dickens and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bleak House 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 came about because a testator wrote several conflicting wills. 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. This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.