Jarndyce who sees no harm in living off everybody else. Skimpole is the childlike captivating friend of Mr. The Smallweed family is mean and avaricious – squeezing money from poor clients. The Jellyby Family, invariably on the verge of a disaster, is neglected by their Mother who is obsessed with an overseas project. Boythorn is a boisterous friend of Jarndyce who has a vendetta with Sir Leicester Dedlock. Nearly insane Miss Flite, who for years has attended court every day, with her little folder of documents, is ever hopeful of a settlement. Several other colorful characters are wound into the story. In the dirt poor part of London comes a young boy called Joe who claims to ‘know noffink’ but who has witnessed something very important.
Inspector Bucket enters the case, and begins investigating the disappearance of Lady Dedlock.
Further difficulties arise when he and Ada fall in love, while he, penniless, continues the quest to bring his case to justice.Ī scriber of legal documents dies, and from his death, questions arise which unearth secrets that the Jarndyce’s neighbour, Lady Dedlock, has kept hidden for years. He tries his hand at a career or two, but he becomes obsessed with hastening the probate of the willed fortune he feels must soon be theirs.
Richard is sure his fortune is ‘just around the corner’ when the case of Jarndyce-v-Jarndyce, of which he and Ada will be beneficiaries, is settled. The story of their lives and fortunes is the main thrust of the novel, and is related at times through the eyes of Esther, whose gentle point of view gives the reader a different and more intimate perspective. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to be settled, changing the lives of those involved.Įsther Summerson, a young woman raised in a tough and unloving atmosphere, is unexpectedly requested to be a companion to two teenage orphans, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, for whom the court has appointed as guardian, John Jarndyce. The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. LibriVox recording of Bleak House, by Charles Dickens.
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