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As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through theCourt of Chancery it draws together a disparate group of people Ada andRichard Clare whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costsEsther Summerson a ward of court whose parentage is a source of deepeningmystery the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn the determined sleuth InspectorBucket and even Jo the destitute little crossingsweeper. A savage but oftencomic indictment of a society that is rotten to the core Bleak House is oneof Dickenss most ambitious novels with a range that extends from the drawingrooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums. «
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