Bleak House / Charles Dickens ; edited by Norman Page ; with an introduction by J. Hillis Miller ; and 27 original illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz')

The protracted Jarndyce and Jarndyce legal case affects various lives, from wards of the court to those in London's slums. Centred on the mystery of Esther Summerson's parentage, the narrative critiques the corruption of the nineteenth-century Court of Chancery.

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Legal stories, English/English fiction/English literature/British Literature English literature/British Literature Fiction/Literature/Philology Gothic fiction (Literary genre)/Suspense fiction/Fiction/Literature/Philology England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Satire/Literature/Philology English literature -- 19th Century/British Literature