Lytton, Edward Bulwer [ Lord Lytton ] — The Disowned

George Routledge nd c 1880 reprint. Cloth, VG. 448pp, b/w frontis, cloth a little rubbed, a nice copy. Early moralistic novel by the owner of Knebworth estate. He later said that out of his study of metaphysics and ethics 'grew the character of Algernon Mordaunt . . . as a type of the Heroism of Christian Philosophy - an union of love and knowledge placed in the midst of sorrow, and laboring on through the pilgrimage of life, strong in the fortitude that comes from belief in heaven'.