Hard Cash (eBook)

Historical Thriller

Charles Reade (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
670 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406638358-9 (EAN)

Infos

Hard Cash revolves around the sum of £14,000, of which a bankrupt banker Richard Hardie defrauds David Dodd, a sea-captain. Upon realizing his loss Dodd has a cataleptic shock and goes insane. Hardie's son Alfred, who loves Dodd's daughter Julia, detects his father's wrongdoing and confronts him about it, so Hardie puts him in a private insane asylum to keep him quiet. Trying to keep a straight mind among the insane, Alfred meets and befriends Dodd, and when a fire breaks out they manage to escape, having one thing on their mind.

Autor

Charles Reade (1814-1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Reade began his literary career as a dramatist, making his reputation by the two-act comedy, Masks and Faces. He made his name as a novelist and became famous because of his novel The Cloister and the Hearth which was based on a few lines by the medieval humanist Erasmus about the life of his parents.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Schlagworte: 19th century england • After Alice Fell • British Literature • complex characters • Drown Her Sorrows • family drama • Financial Fraud • Fuse's Hold • historical fiction • One Good Deed • Psychological thriller • sea captain • Social injustice • Storm Clouds Rolling In • The MacKinnon's Bride • The Next Wife • The Other Emily • The Prophecy • Victorian Era • When We Believed in Mermaids