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Bleak House Preface

By Charles Dickens

Preface

This preface says in two pages what could be summed up in five words nowadays: "based on a true story."
Dickens says that all the Courts of Chancery stuff in the book is true, ripped from the headlines as it were.
And you know what else? Human spontaneous combustion (spoiler!) is totally real too. Um, yeah OK.

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