Hard Cash (Annotated)

Charles Reade's Hard Cash is a vigorous Victorian sensation novel that fuses romance, financial intrigue, maritime adventure, and legal exposé. Centered on the Dodd and Hardie families, the novel traces the moral consequences of stolen money and the terrifying ease with which inconvenient persons could be declared insane. Reade's prose is energetic, theatrical, and insistently evidentiary, combini...