The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 2
1871
Harry Richmond has escaped Rippenger's school, and now the world opens before him like a door into sunlight. Free at last from rigid discipline, he roams the countryside with a gypsy girl named Kiomi, reveling in the raw thrill of independence. But freedom carries a shadow: Harry's father, the mysterious and magnificent Roy Richmond, remains unrecognized by the world that wronged him, and Harry has sworn to restore his father's name and claim the inheritance that is rightfully theirs. Volume Two follows our spirited hero as he navigates a landscape of farmers, tramps, and unexpected encounters, each step pulling him deeper into a quest that tests his imagination, his courage, and his capacity for love. George Meredith constructs a picaresque adventure that is also a searching meditation on identity, legitimacy, and what it means to belong. This is adventure literature with psychological teeth, a novel that understands youth is both exhilarating and perilous.
