Johnny Ludlow grows up at Dyke Manor on the Warwickshire and Worcestershire border, the household of the hot-headed but good-hearted Squire Todhetley. In linked stories he recalls the people around him: a lost child, a wild boy’s taming, a pompous major, a pointsman on the railway, a hunt by moonlight, an adventuress called Sophie Chalk and the neighbouring Whitney family.
Some of the most admired writing of the author of East Lynne, a rich picture of Victorian provincial life. Download the free EPUB.