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Bleak House

?Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke. That is the only good that has ever come of it?. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, wh ose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepen ing mystery the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-swe eper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one Dickens?s most ambitious nov els, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.

• author: Charles Dickens