Bleak House

As the drawn-out Jarndyce and Jarndyce case winds its way through the Court of Chancery, it brings together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose estate is gradually being eaten up by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of the court, whose origins are a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined detective Bucket; and even Jo, the little homeless sweeper. A savage but often comic critique of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a reach that extends from the halls of the aristocracy to the poorest slums of London.

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