Algernon Sydney Potts, son of a Dublin apothecary, decides he was born for adventure, buys a horse named Blondel and sets out to find it. His travels carry him through Irish inns, a jealous husband’s suspicions and the tiny German duchy of Hesse-Kalbbratonstadt, where his grand imaginings collide repeatedly with plain reality.
First serialised in Dickens’s All the Year Round, it is a comic picaresque for readers who enjoy a vain, deluded narrator. Download the free EPUB.