Bleak House by Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Softcover Book

Title: Bleak House by Charles Dickens Penguin Classics Softcover Book.
Author: Charles Dickens.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: Penguin Classics 1987 Reprint.
Publisher: Penguin Books.
Year First Published: 1853.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: Hazel Watson & Viney, Aylesbury, Bucks.
Page Count: 965 pages.
Width: 11.0cm
Height: 18.0cm
Thickness: 4.0cm
Info: Edited by Norman Page with an Introduction by J. Hillis Miller and 27 Original Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz')
Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots, 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 said there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. One such was probably Thellusson v Woodford, in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. Though many in the legal profession criticised Dickens's satire as exaggerated, Bleak House helped support a judicial reform movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Some tanning on front and rear papers. Minor folds on rear cover. Spine is good, pages internally are good.
Price: R 75.00 Inc Vat.