Lancelot Smith, a rich, restless young man fond of hunting and philosophy, falls in love with the high-minded Argemone Lavington. Through her and the gamekeeper-poet Tregarva he is forced to see the disease, poverty and despair of farm labourers in the southern counties, while religious doubt, Catholic converts and the new Poor Law ferment around him.
Kingsley’s first novel, a fierce, uneven Christian Socialist cry from the hungry forties. Download the free EPUB.