The Smuggler: A Tale - Softcover

John Banim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461771837 ISBN 13: 9780461771831

Publisher: HardPress, 1830

Synopsis

The Smuggler: A Tale by John Banim opens with a narrative voice that blends diary-like confession and theatrical intrigue, presenting Michael Mutford, a poor but sharp-witted young man, and his sick father and devoted sister Bessy in a coastal village. Through Mutford’s extended journal, the reader follows a web of deception, poverty, and desire as he recounts escape from Lilly White’s smuggling stronghold, encounters with the formidable Lord Lintern (the Honourable George Allen’s name in title), and a tangle of love, loyalty, and revenge. Central figures—Lucy Peat, the scheming confidante; Sam Geeson; and Master Fox—move between the worlds of smugglers, magistrates, and gentry. The plot threads weave forged parish records, dying confessions, elopements, and courtroom brinkmanship into a critique of parish life, class pretensions, and moral hazard. Mutford’s stubborn fidelity to his father, a tentative reconciliation with his sister, and the later intervention of Mr. Snow, a peace-maker cleric, set the stage for a dramatic reckoning about truth, justice, and family duty.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1830
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461771837
• ISBN 13: 9780461771831
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314