This work is an intricate novel of financial, social and political corruption. A procession of the good, the bad and the ugly is paraded before the reader including Augustus Melmotte, the enigmatic banker and the worldly and cynical Sir Felix Carbury.

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The author paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte.