Bleak House

'Your mother, Esther, was your disgrace and you are hers,'These words were Esther's earliest memory. But who was Esther's mother? What was the disgrace? And why did the ghost walk at Chesney World?

1 The Court Of Chancery 4
2 The Dedlocks At Home 9
3 Mr Krook’s Rag And Bottle Shop 14
4 At Bleak House 21
5 Tom-All-Alone’s 28
6 Richard’s Search For a Profession 34
7 Esther Meets Lady Dedlocks 42
8 Jo Moves On 47
9 Richard Becomes a Soldier 53
10 Esther’s Illness 56
11 ‘I Am Your Unhappy Mother!’ 62
12 Mr Tulkinghorn Gives a Warning 64
13 Allan Woodcourt Returns 69
14 Ada;s Secret 76
15 Work For Mr Bucket 80
16 Flight and Pursuit 86
17 Found 91
18 Allan Woodcourt Speaks 97
19 The Will 100
20 Richard Begins His Life Again 104
21 Later On 108

Points for Understanding 111
Glossary 119
1 Note on the Hight Court of Chancery 121
2 Other legal terms 122
3 Terms to do with nineteenth-century England 122
4 Terms to do with family life 124
5 General 124
List of titles at Upper Level 127