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The Amateur Gentleman

 US Edition - Little, Brown - [March 1913]

"The Amateur Gentleman", the first novel Mr. Farnol has written since the publication of "The Broad Highway", possesses the same qualities which gave "The Broad Highway" its universal appeal -- the charm of style, the fresh, unusual humor, the vigorous yet whimsical characterizations. Barnabas Barty, a country-bred youth, son of the retired champion pugilist of England, is left a fortune; he sets forth for London to "become a gentleman", has many adventures, meets people of widely different types, and falls in love with a fascinating heroine. The period is the early nineteenth century, the scene England, and you will read of country things and people, of gentlemen of fashion and fine ladies, of romantic adventure, and hand-to-hand encounters, and most of all, of true love -- the whole making an entrancing story rich in sentiment and overflowing with ennobling human nature.