Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been in Chancery so long that nobody living knows what it is about, and the costs are consuming the estate. Around it: Esther Summerson’s narration, Lady Dedlock’s secret, Inspector Bucket, Krook and the rag-and-bone shop, and Jo the crossing-sweeper, who is moved on until he dies.
Dickens’s most ambitious and most furious novel. Download the free EPUB.