One of the main characters begins the novel having recently returned from Smyrna to claim his birthright after the death of his brother Durfey.
One of the main characters begins the novel having recently returned from Smyrna to claim his birthright after the death of his brother Durfey. Strife is precipitated by the exchange of identities between Henry Scaddon and Maurice Christian Bycliffe, whose daughter is criticized by the title character for reading "The Giaour." That daughter was adopted by the minister of Malthouse Yard, who befriends the title character after discussing his occupation as a watchmaker. The title character is arrested for killing a constable after attempting to quell a riot near Treby, but is pardoned due to the pleas of Esther Lyon, whose love for the title character leads her to sign over her rights to Transome manor to Harold. FTP name this novel about an activist set just after the passage of the 1832 Reform bill, a work of George Eliot.
One of the main characters begins the novel having recently returned from Smyrna to claim his birthright after the death of his brother Durfey.
{Felix Holt}, the Radical