Starting in London at a gaming table where a traveller displays a strange object from America, the novel follows the Scottish gambler and financier John Law of Lauriston through a fatal duel, imprisonment and flight to the Continent, his love for Catharine Knollys, and his rise in Paris as the projector of the Mississippi scheme that made and broke fortunes across France.
A colourful 1902 historical romance of the first great speculative bubble. Download the free EPUB.