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Facts about Charles Dickens' Bleak House
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Dedicated to Leigh Hunt, Bleak House is among Dickens' longest novels and contains over sixty named characters.
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Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the interminable Chancery lawsuit at the heart of Bleak House, is widely regarded as Dickens' critique of the English legal system's delay and corruption.
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In Bleak House, Dickens uses two distinct narrative voices: a third-person omniscient narrator and the first-person account of Esther Summerson.
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The novel features one of literature's earliest depictions of spontaneous human combustion, in the death of the rag-and-bottle dealer Krook.
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Bleak House was published by Charles Dickens as a monthly serial between 1852 and 1853, comprising twenty installments.