Barnabas Barty, son of John Barty, ex-champion of England and landlord of the Coursing Hound, learns he has come into a fortune and resolves to become a gentleman. Against his father’s advice he walks to London, picking up a pedlar’s book of etiquette, a lovely lady, an enemy or two and a great deal of trouble among the dandies, duellists and moneylenders of the Regency.
A swaggering, romantic Regency adventure from the author of The Broad Highway. Download the free EPUB.