Arthur Burton, a gentle English youth studying at a seminary in Pisa, adores his teacher Canon Montanelli and drifts into the Young Italy movement. A betrayal in the confessional and a family secret shatter him; years later a scarred, sardonic pamphleteer called the Gadfly appears in Tuscany, aiming his pen at the Church and the Austrians.
Published in 1897, it became one of the most widely read English novels in the Soviet Union. Download the free EPUB.
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