''Calthorpe, or Fallen Fortunes'' is an 1821
novel
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by the British writer
Thomas Gaspey. It was published in
three volumes
The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literatur ...
by the
London
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firm
Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. Partly set in
Germany
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amongst British
merchants
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, it contains a
murder mystery
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. The negative portrayal of
bank
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s and
financiers
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is a recurring theme in British literature of the era.
[Michie p.152]
References
Bibliography
* Burwick, Frederick Goslee, Nancy Moore & Hoeveler Diane Long . ''The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature''. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
* Michie, Ranald. ''War On Wealth, The: Fact And Fiction In British Finance Since 1800''. World Scientific, 2023.
1821 British novels
Novels by Thomas Gaspey
Longman books
Novels set in Germany
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