Beginning in 1756, this mock-memoir follows Sir John Constantine, a quixotic Cornish gentleman, and his son on a pilgrimage that ends in Corsica. Pledged to the island’s patriots and an exiled princess, the father raises an army out of almost nothing, and the son tells of silent conspirators, battles and the price of keeping one’s word.
An eighteenth-century adventure in the spirit of Stevenson by the critic known as Q. Download the free EPUB.