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Bleak House

Years ago (and more than once) I mentioned that this case makes for a real life version of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, one of the longest novels ever written, as Dickens was paid a nickel a word. So this could go on a while, and you still may have time to read Bleak House.


"" At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because a testator wrote several conflicting wills. In a preface to the 1853 first edition, Dickens claimed there were many actual precedents for his fictional case.[1] One such was probably the Thellusson v Woodford case in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens's satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.[3] ""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House