Henry Pelham, only child of a whig gentleman and a diamond-loving mother, narrates his progress from Eton and Cambridge through the salons of Paris and the drawing-rooms of London. Foppish and sharp-tongued, he pursues fashion and a political career until an old friend’s dark history draws him into a mystery of murder.
The 1828 novel that made Bulwer-Lytton famous and set a fashion for dandyism, for lovers of Regency society comedy. Download the free EPUB.