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    What unexplainable phenomena befalls a junk merchant in an 1852 Dickens novel?

    Question #17052. Asked by griffin. (Mar 09 02 8:32 PM)


    velella

    		Spontaneous Human Combustion. Krook in 'Bleak House'.
    Ref : Read the book.

    Mar 09 02, 8:37 PM
    bipolar

    		Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853.

    Character Krook — a rag and bottle merchant and collector of papers. He dies from a case of spontaneous human combustion, something that Dickens believed could, in fact, happen. Nemo and Miss Flite lived in rooms in his house.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House#Major_characters

    Feb 14 08, 3:18 PM

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