John Caldigate
1879
John Caldigate is the son of a stern Suffolk squire, a young man suffocating in the shadow of his father's rigid expectations. When his mother and sisters die, leaving him alone with the domineering Daniel Caldigate, John flees to the gold fields of New South Wales seeking freedom and fortune. But adventure comes at a price: in the rough democracy of the Australian mining camps, among desperate men and ambitious women, John falls into a relationship that will destroy him. Years later, established in England with a young wife and prospects, he is arrested for bigamy. The witness against him is his former Australian mistress, and the trial that follows exposes not only questions of law and evidence, but the hollowness of Victorian respectability. Trollope, master of moral complexity, builds his case with characteristic precision: Is John a victim of his own rash youth, or a cad who escaped consequences too long? The novel roars through Australian gold-mining camps and English country houses with equal vigor, mounting an uncommonly fierce attack on religious hypocrisy while asking whether any man can truly outrun his past.
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