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The Fool Errant

First published: 1905
Pages: 329

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The Fool Errant is a 1905 picaresque novel by Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923), the English historical novelist famous for The Forest Lovers and The Queen's Quair. The book presents the memoirs of Francis Strelley, a young English gentleman in eighteenth-century Italy whose innocent high-mindedness repeatedly lands him in absurd and dangerous adventures as he wanders the peninsula among nobles, rogues, players, and revolutionaries, devoted throughout to a married woman he serves with quixotic loyalty. Hewlett uses the fool-errant figure to play chivalric idealism against worldly Italy, in the rich period manner he had perfected in his medieval romances. The novel belongs to the Edwardian vogue for eighteenth-century picaresque and shows Hewlett's lighter comic register. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Maurice Hewlett

Maurice Hewlett was an English novelist, essayist, and poet whose work ranged across travel writing, historical romance, short fiction, drama, and verse. Born in 1861, he trained in law and held a government records post before literature became his principal career.