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...
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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 rot
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