Life in London : $b or, The pitfalls of a great city

"Life in London: or, The Pitfalls of a Great City" by Edwin Hodder is a 19th-century narrative about a young man named George Weston, who comes to London ready to start his life as a junior clerk. As George begins his new job, he encounters a range of characters and situations in an office on Fleet Street. George's eagerness is tempered by early warnings and his own observations of his co-workers, which show a potential clash between his values and the temptations of city life. His story is a morality play set against bustling Victorian London that explores the challenges and moral dilemmas of life in a big, complex city.