William Porphyry Benham, free of the need to earn a living, is gripped from boyhood by one idea: to overcome fear, indulgence and jealousy and live as a true aristocrat of the spirit. His friend White pieces together Benham’s notes and adventures after his death, from schoolboy days and a spirited marriage to Amanda to travels around the world in search of the noble life.
A novel of ideas from Wells’s middle period, for readers who enjoy fiction as argument. Download the free EPUB.