A courteous, strangely innocent young man named Bertram Ingledew takes rooms in a Surrey suburb and studies the locals as an anthropologist might study a remote tribe, cataloguing their taboos on property, rank, religion and marriage. When his frankness draws him close to an unhappily married woman, respectable society closes ranks.
A sharp satirical fable of 1895, using a visitor from elsewhere to expose Victorian convention. Download the free EPUB.