George Robinson, the firm’s self-appointed literary man, tells how he, the elderly Mr. Brown and the slippery Mr. Jones opened a haberdashery on borrowed money and a blizzard of advertising. The partnership quarrels over everything, Brown’s daughter has views of her own, and the business staggers on toward ruin.
Trollope’s rare outright satire, a sharp look at Victorian trade and the new cult of puffery. Download the free EPUB.