![]() ![]() ![]() Esther does not realize that Miss Barbary is her aunt, thinking of her only as her godmother. Jarndyce becomes Esther’s guardian, and after attending school in Reading for six years, she goes to live with him at Bleak House, along with his wards, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare. When Miss Barbary dies, the Chancery lawyer takes charge of Esther’s future on the instruction of his client, John Jarndyce. The task was simply too big to be handled on my own especially that I lacked time so I needed help very badly.įirst we meet Esther Summerson, a shy good-looking girl raised by Miss Barbary. I also decided to use a bit of the appropriate Wikipedia’s summary. The synopsis of such a long, multi-layered story is really a challenge – I am sure that Dickens would have loved those soap operas which drag on interminably and are understood just by a handful of devoted fans – so please forgive me if I omit anything important. It is also the only Dickens’s novel in which the story is partly told by one of female leads and then complemented by an omniscient narrator. Small wonder – it is really a monster of a book. ![]() ![]() Bleak House was the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty installments. ![]()
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