A Terrible Temptation

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, William Powell Frith and William Hogarth. A baronet needs an heir, a discarded mistress needs revenge, and the baronet himself is quietly locked away in a private asylum by a cousin who stands to inherit. Reade campaigned in fiction against the abuses of his day — mad-doctors, prisons, unions — and researched like a journali...