The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

Bleak House

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Topic

Law Lawyers

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Bleak House

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, Mar. 1853, issue 13, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 39.

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Source
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Time
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