At Max Schurz’s Sunday receptions for London socialists, refugees of the Commune mingle with German printers and artists. From there Grant Allen follows young men fresh from Oxford’s Magdalen into the Philistine world of money, publishing and respectability, where ideals of culture and social reform meet the hard question of how to earn a living.
Grant Allen’s first novel, a sharp satire of Victorian culture and the price of integrity. Download the free EPUB.