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 case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

816 pages

Media	Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released	January 17, 2021
ISBN13	9781774761083
Publishers	Engage Books
Pages	816
Dimensions	237 × 160 × 58 mm · 1.38 kg
Language	English

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