{"id":1175,"date":"2022-02-11T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thequeensreadingroom.co.uk\/?post_type=books&p=1175"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T08:23:01","slug":"bleak-house","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/thequeensreadingroom.co.uk\/books\/bleak-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleak House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/div>\n
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At the High Court of Chancery, the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce continues, having \u201cbecome so complicated that no man alive knows what it means\u201d. 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n