Ovid Vere, a gifted young surgeon, falls in love with his cousin Carmina, an heiress who comes to London as the ward of his cold, ambitious mother. As Mrs Gallilee plots for Carmina’s fortune, the brilliant and ruthless Dr Benjulia, who pursues his experiments on living animals in a locked laboratory, becomes entangled in the fate of the household.
Collins’s anti-vivisection novel of 1883, combining a love story with sensation and a moral argument. Download the free EPUB.