Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1853. The novel centers around the endless legal case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce and follows the fates of Esther Summerson, Ada Clare, and Richard Carstone, offering a sharp social critique.
Bleak House est un roman de Charles Dickens publié en 1853. Le roman tourne autour de l'interminable affaire juridique de Jarndyce contre Jarndyce et suit les destins d'Esther Summerson, Ada Clare et Richard Carstone, offrant une critique sociale acerbe.
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| Back | novel C. Dickens 1853 Esther Summerson , Ada Clare , Richard Carstone are central to the plot of novel endless case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce , gives the novel its scope and meaning Esther 's account of her lonely , unhappy childhood Ada and Richard marry Jo, the crossing-sweeper whose brutish life and death are the instrument for one of Dickens' s most savage judgments on an indifferent society Harold Skimpole; based on Leigh Hunt boisterous Boythorn; based on Walter Savage Landor 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 came 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. Quick facts: Author, Illustrator … There is some debate among scholars as to when Bleak House is set. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth sets the action in 1827; however, reference to preparation for the building of a railway in Chapter LV suggests the 1830s. |
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