Griffith Gaunt (Annotated)

Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy (1866) is one of Charles Reade's most forceful sensation novels, a domestic tragedy built around marital suspicion, Catholic-Protestant tension, concealment, and the moral chaos produced by wounded pride. Set in eighteenth-century England, the novel combines melodramatic incident with Reade's documentary realism: courtroom procedure, social observation, and sharply sta...