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Violence
Some
Moderate period violence; duels and the social violence of financial collapse
Language
None
Period prose; no strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief period romantic interest
Substance Use
Barely any
Period French social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the chaos of financial panic and its human cost
What this book is about
Emerson Hough's 1902 historical adventure novel is set during the collapse of John Law's Mississippi Company scheme in 1720, following an American who becomes caught up in the Parisian financial frenzy and its catastrophic aftermath. Hough — best known for frontier fiction — brings his adventure-story instincts to a European financial history setting.
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Period dueling violence
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