Written in the solemn voice of an admiring biographer, the book chronicles Mr. Burden, a respectable hardware exporter of Thames Street and Justice of the Peace for Surrey, as peers and promoters draw him into a speculative African company. G. K. Chesterton supplied the drawings. Belloc’s financier villain trades in the antisemitic caricature of its day.
A sharp Edwardian satire on Empire, money and the press, for readers of Chesterton and Belloc. Download the free EPUB.