Broad Highway (Version 2)

Peter Vibart wants no part of the fortune and title that should be his, not if it means marrying Lady Sophia, the elegant cousin who's already spent a season in London with his scheming relative. So he does the only sensible thing: he packs a knapsack and walks away from everything expected of him. The open road stretching before him is aBroad Highway to freedom, populated by rogues, poets, blacksmiths, and wayward souls who see an inexperienced young gentleman as easy prey. But Peter is sharper than he looks. He escapes traps, outwits tricksters, and falls in with an unforgettable cast: the redoubtable Black George the smith, the enigmatic Ancient, sweet Prudence, and the impossible, irresistible Charmain. Each encounter strips away another layer of the entitled boy he was, revealing the man he's becoming. By the time the journey ends, Peter has learned what money cannot buy: the secrets of the heart, the weight of real courage, and what it truly means to live. Farnol's 1911 masterpiece pulses with early twentieth-century optimism, when the English countryside still seemed infinite and a young man could walk his way to wisdom.