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This is the BEST version of Bleak House available for your Nook. This edition is unabridged and includes the original illustrations from the first publication of this work, by artist Hablot "Phiz" Knight Browne. In addition, this ebook has been meticulously proofed for formatting errors and includes a working Table of Contents with selectable links.

As with all Codex Ebooks, this edition is DRM-free, which means you can also read it on your Sony Reader, Kobo Reader or any ebook reading device that can display ePub files. This ebook has been tested on a Nook (and a Sony Reader Touch Edition) to ensure maximum readability. Download a free sample for yourself and compare it against samples of other Nook editions: THIS IS THE BEST VERSION available for your Nook. Don't settle for a version with spelling errors, missing punctuation, bad formatting and no illustrations! Get the best! Satisfaction guaranteed!

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Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone.

At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills, all of them seeking to bequeath money and land surrounding the Manor of Marr in South Yorkshire. The litigation, which already has consumed years and sixty to seventy thousand pounds sterling in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce his copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticized Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in enactment of the legal reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as Chancery was reforming itself, with the Six Clerks and Masters mentioned in Chapter One abolished in 1842 and 1852 respectively: the need for further reform was being widely debated.
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Bleak House: Premium Edition (Unabridged and Illustrated) [Optimized for Nook and Sony-compatible]
This is the BEST version of Bleak House available for your Nook. This edition is unabridged and includes the original illustrations from the first publication of this work, by artist Hablot "Phiz" Knight Browne. In addition, this ebook has been meticulously proofed for formatting errors and includes a working Table of Contents with selectable links.

As with all Codex Ebooks, this edition is DRM-free, which means you can also read it on your Sony Reader, Kobo Reader or any ebook reading device that can display ePub files. This ebook has been tested on a Nook (and a Sony Reader Touch Edition) to ensure maximum readability. Download a free sample for yourself and compare it against samples of other Nook editions: THIS IS THE BEST VERSION available for your Nook. Don't settle for a version with spelling errors, missing punctuation, bad formatting and no illustrations! Get the best! Satisfaction guaranteed!

(To read this ebook on a device other than a Nook: after you purchase and download the file, it will be located in your "My Documents" folder, in a sub-folder named "My Barnes & Noble eBooks." Use the free program Calibre to move the ebook to your reading device. Enjoy!)

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Information about this title:

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone.

At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills, all of them seeking to bequeath money and land surrounding the Manor of Marr in South Yorkshire. The litigation, which already has consumed years and sixty to seventy thousand pounds sterling in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce his copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticized Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in enactment of the legal reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as Chancery was reforming itself, with the Six Clerks and Masters mentioned in Chapter One abolished in 1842 and 1852 respectively: the need for further reform was being widely debated.
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Bleak House: Premium Edition (Unabridged and Illustrated) [Optimized for Nook and Sony-compatible]

Bleak House: Premium Edition (Unabridged and Illustrated) [Optimized for Nook and Sony-compatible]

Bleak House: Premium Edition (Unabridged and Illustrated) [Optimized for Nook and Sony-compatible]

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This is the BEST version of Bleak House available for your Nook. This edition is unabridged and includes the original illustrations from the first publication of this work, by artist Hablot "Phiz" Knight Browne. In addition, this ebook has been meticulously proofed for formatting errors and includes a working Table of Contents with selectable links.

As with all Codex Ebooks, this edition is DRM-free, which means you can also read it on your Sony Reader, Kobo Reader or any ebook reading device that can display ePub files. This ebook has been tested on a Nook (and a Sony Reader Touch Edition) to ensure maximum readability. Download a free sample for yourself and compare it against samples of other Nook editions: THIS IS THE BEST VERSION available for your Nook. Don't settle for a version with spelling errors, missing punctuation, bad formatting and no illustrations! Get the best! Satisfaction guaranteed!

(To read this ebook on a device other than a Nook: after you purchase and download the file, it will be located in your "My Documents" folder, in a sub-folder named "My Barnes & Noble eBooks." Use the free program Calibre to move the ebook to your reading device. Enjoy!)

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Information about this title:

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone.

At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills, all of them seeking to bequeath money and land surrounding the Manor of Marr in South Yorkshire. The litigation, which already has consumed years and sixty to seventy thousand pounds sterling in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce his copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticized Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in enactment of the legal reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as Chancery was reforming itself, with the Six Clerks and Masters mentioned in Chapter One abolished in 1842 and 1852 respectively: the need for further reform was being widely debated.

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BN ID: 2940011986444
Publisher: Codex Ebook Services
Publication date: 01/03/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Author:

Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.

Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialized form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing, Leo Tolstoy and G. K. Chesterton.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington
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