At the Southampton races, a scene of beauty, rivalry and fashion, young Damon falls in love with Delia, but a run of misunderstandings and social obstacles keeps the pair apart. Godwin tells the story with mock-heroic chapter headings and a playful, Fielding-like narrator who comments freely on the follies of polite society.
An early, surprisingly lighthearted novel of 1784 by the radical philosopher of Political Justice. Download the free EPUB.