Word: grimiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father got him a job as solicitor's clerk in one of London's grimiest, soundest law firms, but Ben never intended to be anything so humdrum to him as a lawyer. Byron, lately dead at Missolonghi, was his hero. While still a law clerk, he began what he intended to be a brilliant literary career by writing a satirical society novel. Famed Publisher Murray fought shy of it, and Ben was cut to the quick. Wanting to get rich very quickly, he took a flyer in South American mining shares. was soon over his ears in debt...
...slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer. It is the result not of the Legion of Decency but of Victor Hugo's feelings about man's inhumanity to man and it is still, as it always has been, the grimiest great story ever told...