A satirical novel continuing the Veneerings' story, skewering Victorian social climbing, materialism, and pretentious dinner parties among the nouveau riche.
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A satirical novel continuing the Veneerings' story, skewering Victorian social climbing, materialism, and pretentious dinner parties among the nouveau riche.
With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social-climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg.
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Mercenary marriages and love affairs driven by social ambition and financial miscalculations
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Satirical critique of conspicuous consumption, false social climbing, and upper-class pretensions
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References to workhouse terrors and social exploitation
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