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Violence
Some
A murder and its investigation; drowning; some Victorian criminal violence
Language
Barely any
Victorian literary prose; no profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content; courtship within Victorian conventions
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of money and the corruption it causes in everyone it touches
What this book is about
The supposed death of young John Harmon—who was to inherit a fortune if he married Bella Wilfer—sets off a cascade of disguised identities, social climbers, and the corrupt pursuit of money across Victorian London. Dickens's last completed novel is his most labyrinthine: a social panorama of greed, love, and the Victorian appetite for self-improvement.
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