Clotilde von Rüdiger, a precocious coquette of the minor German aristocracy, meets the brilliant radical orator Sigismund Alvan, and the two fall into a passion her family is determined to crush. Meredith based the story on the real affair that led the socialist Ferdinand Lassalle to a duel in 1864.
A short, intense psychological novel that shows Meredith’s style at its most concentrated. Download the free EPUB.