![]() ![]() Sir Leicester Dedlock is devotedly attached to his beautiful wife. The weak Richard, lured by the will‐o'‐the‐wisp of the fortune that is to be his when the case is settled, sinks gradually to ruin and death, and the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce comes suddenly to an end on the discovery that the costs have absorbed the whole estate in dispute.Īda has for a companion Esther Summerson, a supposed orphan, one of Dickens's saints, and the narrative is partly supposed to be from her pen. The wards are taken to live with their kind elderly relative John Jarndyce. They are wards of the court in the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, concerned with the distribution of an estate. The tale centres in the fortunes of an uninteresting couple, Richard Carstone, a futile youth, and his amiable cousin Ada Clare. The book contains a vigorous satire on the abuses of the old court of Chancery, the delays and costs of which brought misery and ruin on its suitors. ![]() ![]() A novel by Dickens, published in monthly parts 1852–3. ![]()
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