Reginald de St. Leon, a French nobleman ruined by gambling, receives from a dying stranger the secrets of endless wealth and endless life. The gifts that should bless him isolate him instead, bringing suspicion, imprisonment and the Inquisition upon him as he wanders through a Europe torn by the Reformation.
Godwin’s Gothic successor to Caleb Williams, a philosophical fable from the father of Mary Shelley. Download the free EPUB.