Bleak House (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

<p><em>Bleak House</em> is told partly by the novel's heroine Esther Summerson and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of <em>Bleak House</em> is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery Jarndyce and Jarndyce which came about because a testator wrote several conflicting wills.</p><p>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.</p><p>This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket. </p>