Author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer [ Lord Lytton ]
Title: The Disowned
Description: George Routledge, nd c 1880, reprint. Cloth, VG. 448pp, b/w frontis, cloth a little rubbed, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Early moralistic novel by the owner of Knebworth estate. He later said that out of his study of metaphysics and ethics 'grew the character of Algernon Mordaunt . . as a type of the Heroism of Christian Philosophy - an union of love and knowledge placed in the midst of sorrow, and laboring on through the pilgrimage of life, strong in the fortitude that comes from belief in heaven'.

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