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This is an alternate cover edition - ASIN B005DZZHTQ Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickenss finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. At the novels core is long-running litig This is an alternate cover edition - ASIN B005DZZHTQ Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickenss finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. At the novels core is long-running litigation in Englands Court of Chancery, Jarndyce v Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. The litigation, which already has taken many years and consumed between £60,000 and £70,000 in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticised Dickenss portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.