In a Britain a few years ahead, young ladies fly with personal wings and a Labour government taxes the propertied classes into despair. Irene Lisle and her circle discover that a secret league of the middle and upper classes is preparing an ingenious counter-stroke, and the novel follows its compact, its agents and the social war that follows.
A political fantasy from 1907 by the creator of Kai Lung, frankly partisan and full of period invention. Download the free EPUB.