Bleak House Annotated

By: Dickens, Charles

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08FP5V5KG
• ISBN13: 9798675798681
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 582 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"