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The Great Tontine

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The book 'The Great Tontine' is written by Henry Hawley Smart. 'The Great Tontine' is a charming novel that analyzes the world of financial speculation, morality, and literary publishing. The story is set against the backdrop of a tontine investment scheme, the story weaves intricate plots and self-reflexive elements. The novel analyzes the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate financial ventures, much like Dickens’s examination of a Ponzi scheme in Little Dorrit.

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Henry Hawley Smart

Henry Hawley Smart served as an army officer before becoming a prolific English novelist. His fiction drew particular strength from racing, hunting, and service life, subjects connected to his family background and military career. The Great Tontine appeared from Chapman and Hall in 1881 as a three-volume novel.

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