Novel-Classic Stories

The story centers on Brenda and her cousin, who is attending Radcliffe College, a prestigious women’s college.

An aristocrat with progressive ideas, insists on equality between servants and masters.

The novel tells the story of Rev. Gavin Dishart, a young and idealistic minister recently assigned to the parish.

In a czarist city of spies and informers, a timid student is coerced into betraying a fiery revolutionary and then driven abroad to face the exiles who trusted him. Torn between cowardice, guilt, and a desperate need to be understood, he stumbles through plots, interrogations, and doomed love, seeking a truth that may destroy him.