Reuben Sachs is the pride of his family: scholarship boy, rising barrister, committee man of the Jewish community and soon a candidate for Parliament. His cousin Judith Quixano loves him, and he her, but in a world of wealthy Bayswater households where marriage is a matter of money and position, ambition keeps its own counsel.
A short, unsparing novel of Anglo-Jewish life that caused controversy in 1888 and is now read as a landmark. Download the free EPUB.