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Lady Dedlock asks about the handwriting on a legal document; Tulkinghorn gets curious.
Chapter 2Esther, Ada, and Richard move in with John Jarndyce at Bleak House; Esther takes over housekeeping.
Chapter 6Tulkinghorn and Krook find Nemo dead; Krook steals some letters; Nemo is put in the burial ground.
Chapter 11Richard quits medicine to start working at Kenge and Carboy's; Guppy starts investigating Nemo.
Chapter 20George refuses to give Tulkinghorn a sample of Captain Hawdon's handwriting.
Chapter 27Guppy tells Lady Dedlock Esther is Captain Hawdon's daughter; she realizes her child is alive.
Chapter 29Esther falls ill and briefly loses her sight; her face is scarred from the illness.
Chapter 31Krook dies of spontaneous combustion; the Smallweeds and Tulkinghorn search his property.
Chapter 32Tulkinghorn gets handwriting sample from George; Lady Dedlock tells Esther she's Esther's mother.
Chapter 34Tulkinghorn tells Lady Dedlock he knows about Captain Hawdon; he threatens to have Hortense jailed.
Chapter 41Esther tells Jarndyce Lady Dedlock is her mother; he asks Esther to marry him, and she accepts.
Chapter 43Richard devotes himself to the Jarndyce case; Woodcourt promises Esther he'll watch over Richard.
Chapter 45Woodcourt finds Jo on the street and takes him to George; Jo receives several visitors before dying.
Chapter 46Tulkinghorn threatens to tell Sir Leicester about Hawdon and is later shot dead in his office.
Chapter 48Bucket arrests George for Tulkinghorn's murder; Mrs. Bagnet goes to Chesney Wold to find his mother.
Chapter 49Bucket tells Sir Leicester what Tulkinghorn knew and arrests Hortense; Sir Leicester has a stroke.
Chapter 54A letter accuses Lady Dedlock of the murder; her secret is out; she writes a suicide note.
Chapter 55Bucket and Esther pursue Lady Dedlock but find her too late; she is dead on the burial ground step.
Chapter 56Woodcourt tells Esther he loves her; Jarndyce secretly buys a cottage for them, and they marry.
Chapter 61The Jarndyce case ends—the money has all gone to costs; Richard dies; Miss Flite releases her birds.
Chapter 65| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Preface–Chapter 1 | A Chancery judge once told Dickens any delays in Chancery were due to the "parsimony of the public," who didn't want a... Read More |
| Chapters 2–3 | Chapter 2 presents the world of fashion and the fashionable as like the world of Chancery in that both "are things of ... Read More |
| Chapters 4–6 | As Chapter 4 opens, Conversation Kenge tells Esther Summerson, Ada Clare, and Richard Carstone that they are to stay t... Read More |
| Chapters 7–9 | At the opening of Chapter 7 Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife, Lady Honoria Dedlock, are still in Paris, and at Chesn... Read More |
| Chapters 10–12 | Readers learn in Chapter 10 that Mr. Snagsby came into his ownership of the law stationer's shop several decades ago b... Read More |
| Chapters 13–15 | Esther Summerson and John Jarndyce try to get Richard Carstone to decide which profession he would like to enter, but ... Read More |
| Chapters 16–18 | Sir Leicester Dedlock is laid up with gout, a family affliction. Lady Honoria Dedlock has gone up to town. She has bee... Read More |
| Chapters 19–21 | The courts are closed for their annual summer break, and the lawyers and judges are off enjoying the four-month vacati... Read More |
| Chapters 22–24 | Mr. Tulkinghorn is enjoying a glass of 50-year-old port with Mr. Snagsby. Snagsby is repeating something he reported t... Read More |
| Chapters 25–27 | Mrs. Snagsby realizes something is troubling Mr. Snagsby. He is irritable and distracted; he's having nightmares. It a... Read More |
| Chapters 28–29 | Sir Leicester Dedlock is suffering through a visit from a number of poor Dedlock cousins to Chesney Wold. Among them a... Read More |
| Chapters 30–31 | Mrs. Woodcourt writes with news of her son, Allan Woodcourt, and John Jarndyce invites her to come to Bleak House; she... Read More |
| Chapters 32–34 | It is night. In the Inns of Court only a few people are still at work. The cool, humid air carries the unpleasant odor... Read More |
| Chapters 35–36 | Esther Summerson is delirious for days, imagining she is "labor[ing] up colossal staircases" even though she is vaguel... Read More |
| Chapters 37–38 | Esther Summerson considers the conditions of her birth Lady Dedlock's secret and not her own, so she decides she will ... Read More |
| Chapters 39–42 | Vholes and his client, Richard Carstone, have returned from court. Richard "looks the portrait of young despair" and c... Read More |
| Chapters 43–45 | Esther Summerson lives in constant fear that somehow she will lead to her mother's "betrayal." If at all possible, she... Read More |
| Chapters 46–47 | Chapter 46 begins at dawn in Tom-all-Alone's. Allan Woodcourt finds a woman sitting on a doorstep and examines a bad b... Read More |
| Chapters 48–49 | As Chapter 48 opens, Sir Leicester Dedlock and Lady Honoria Dedlock are at their house in London. Lady Dedlock is haug... Read More |
| Chapters 50–52 | In Chapter 50 readers learn Caddy Jellyby has a baby daughter named Esther; Caddy's health is "delicate," and the baby... Read More |
| Chapters 53–54 | Mr. Bucket is busy investigating. He is at Sir Leicester Dedlock's London house, then at Chesney Wold, and then in Lin... Read More |
| Chapters 55–56 | In the early hours of the day that Mr. Bucket will arrest Hortense, Mrs. Bagnet and Mrs. Rouncewell are in a chaise tr... Read More |
| Chapters 57–59 | In Chapter 57 when John Jarndyce explains why Mr. Bucket needs her, Esther Summerson is "thrown into ... a tumult of a... Read More |
| Chapters 60–62 | In Chapter 60 John Jarndyce tells Esther Summerson they will be staying in London so they can be near Ada Clare and ke... Read More |
| Chapters 63–65 | At the start of Chapter 63, Mr. George has given up his shooting gallery and moved to Chesney Wold to look after Sir L... Read More |
| Chapters 66–67 | Sir Leicester Dedlock now lives full time at Chesney Wold. He has brought Lady Honoria Dedlock's body home to lie in t... Read More |
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