At the peak of his powers, Charles Dickens composed this lurid tale of murder, greed, and obsession centered on the courtship of two ravishingly beautiful, but starkly different women. Ever fond of ironic symbols, Dickens creates a world where money is made from mammoth dust heaps and from corpses fished from the Thames. Paul McGann, Anna Friel, David Morrissey, Steven Mackintosh, and Keeley Hawes star in this meticulous recreation of Dickens's last completed novel, which many regard as his greatest.