Taking up where Homeward Bound left off, the Effingham family, back from years in Europe, settle first into New York society and then into their old house at Templeton on Lake Otsego. Through their eyes Cooper surveys American manners — newspaper bullies, land speculation, gossip and the tyranny of local opinion — while a quiet love story unfolds.
Cooper’s sharpest satire of his own country, a Jacksonian portrait that stung its first readers. Download the free EPUB.