Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
9.4
Points
66.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
338643
Points per Word
0.000195
Page Count
928
Points per Page
0.071121
Description
Set in England in the mid 1800s, this novel portrays a prison-world in which the shadow of the Marshalsea reaches from the rack-rented Bleeding Heart Yard to the high society of Harley Street and Hampton Court.