In a late Eighteenth Century setting, between fashionable London and backward Virginia, two twin brothers from the nobility spend their formative period trying to flee a domineering dowager mother in different ways--the older a saturnine, melancholy character, the younger an easy going type. Both, in their own way, succeed; but both reach old age feeling themselves equally swindled. The usual Thackeray touch of good humoured aristocratic melancholy aimed at bourgeois philisteism.
Genres
- Americans
- Brothers
- Fiction
- History
- Inheritance and succession
- Twins
- United States French and Indian War, 1755-1763
- Great britain, fiction
- Virginia, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- United states, history, french and indian war, 1755-1763, fiction
- Brothers, fiction
- Twins, fiction
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, family life, general
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