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Published in 1849...
The quiet country life of the family of Austin Caxton is interrupted by a visit to London. There his son Pisistratus is offered the position of secretary to a leader in Parliament. That parliamentarian's wife was loved as a girl by Austin Caxton and his brother; but she had passed them both by to make a marriage better suited to an ambitious woman. By a freak of fate, Pisistratus now falls in love with her daughter Fannie.
A further outline of this story would give no idea of its charm. The mutual affection of the Caxtons is finely indicated, and the gradations of light and shade make a beautiful picture. Never before had Bulwer written with so light a touch and so gentle a humor, and this novel has been called the most brilliant and attractive of productions. His gentle satire of certain phrases of political life was founded, doubtless, on actual experience. (Modified from “Warner's Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern, Vol. II”, 1910)
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