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Bleak House

By Charles Dickens

Recommended By Susan Hill

I started reading him in my Great Aunt’s old complete leather bound edition (kept in a glass case!) when I was 9 and still read one Dickens a year. This masterpiece is my favourite, full of magnificent set pieces.
~ Susan Hill
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Publish Date: 1853

At the High Court of Chancery, the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce continues, having “become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means”. A group of disparate people involved in the dispute, from the upper echelons of society to the slums of London, is at the centre of this ambitious novel, which represents a scathing indictment of the Court of Chancery and the broader legal system.

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