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Esther Summerson finds herself caught up in the frustrations of a seemingly unending law-case involving her generous guardian Mr Jarndyce and her wards Ada and Richard.Brought into contact with poverty and disease, Esther suffers a serious illness.
Meanwhile the unscrupulous lawyer Tulkinghorn seeks to expose the past of the wife of a rich aristocrat, and the secret of Esther's birth is revealed. But in the midst of tumultuous events, will she ever find love?
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Fiction, Guardian and ward, Young women, Illegitimate children, Inheritance and succession, Social problems, Translations into French, Social life and customs, Social conditions, English Christmas stories, Classic Literature, Literature, open_syllabus_project, Young women -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, English literature, Manners and customs, Classics, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Fiction, historical, general, Enfants naturels, Romans, nouvelles, Tutelle et curatelle, Jeunes femmes, Bleak House (Dickens, Charles), Successions et héritages, Fiction, general, Young women, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, legal, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, London (England) -- Fiction, Inheritance and succession -- Fiction, Bildungsromans, Guardian and ward -- Fiction, Illegitimate children -- Fiction, Legal stories, Chang pian xiao shuo, Novela inglesa, Pr4556.a2 i54 2011, 823/.8People
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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, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
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