Hard Cash by Charles Reade
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"Hard Cash" by Charles Reade is a novel published in 1863. This matter-of-fact romance exposes the poor treatment of patients in Victorian insane asylums. When bankrupt banker Richard Hardie defrauds sea-captain David Dodd of £14,000, both men's lives spiral into madness and confinement. Hardie's son Alfred, who loves Dodd's daughter Julia, discovers his father's crime and faces a harrowing consequence: imprisonment in an asylum among the insane. Reade's reformist work combines maritime
adventure, courtroom drama, and a penetrating analysis of mental illness and institutional abuse. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Reade, Charles, 1814-1884 |
|---|---|
| Title | Hard Cash |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Cash_(novel) |
| Note | Sequel to: Love Me Little, Love Me Long. |
| Credits | Produced by James Rusk and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 3067 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2002 |
| Last Update | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1148 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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