On a soft May evening in the 1700s, a youth turned out of his home sets off along an English green lane to make his fortune under a name not his own. His road leads into London society, politics and friendship, and crosses the path of the high-minded, impoverished Algernon Mordaunt, whose struggles give the novel its darker philosophical strand.
An early Bulwer-Lytton novel from 1828, mixing society comedy, romance and moral idealism in the manner that made him a leading novelist of his day. Download the free EPUB.