A Country Gentleman and His Family
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1886
- Pages
- 387
About this book
When his father dies, young Theodore Warrender leaves Oxford to take charge of the family estate and its dependents, a role his bookish, ambitious temperament is ill suited to fill. Margaret Oliphant sets his private frustrations against the demands of a mother, sisters, and a rural community that all expect something from him, and she watches how thwarted ambition curdles into pride and quiet unhappiness. As romance and questions of inheritance complicate matters, the novel weighs duty against desire with the shrewd, sympathetic eye Oliphant brought to Victorian domestic life. First published in 1886, it is a keen study of a man measuring himself against a world that will not bend.
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Book facts
- Author
- Margaret Oliphant
- First published
- 1886
- Reading time
- About 12 hours
- Pages
- 387
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Domestic Fiction
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online