A gold guinea narrates its passage through the hands of misers, harlots, and hypocrites, exposing the vices of Georgian society.
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Middlemarch by George Eliot: “All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through "Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea," which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.”