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A Victorian novel by Charles Reade exposing abuses in private lunatic asylums through the story of a young man wrongfully confined, with a linked plot about a banker and misappropriated money. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century sensation fiction and social-reform writing.
Charles Reade
Charles Reade was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for the 1861 historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth.
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