The Broad Highway (Annotated)

The Broad Highway is a vigorous Edwardian romance of the open road, set in an idealized eighteenth-century England of inns, hedgerows, prize-fighters, rustics, and sudden encounters. Farnol shapes the novel as a picaresque pilgrimage: its hero moves through comic, sentimental, and perilous episodes in search of manhood, love, and moral self-knowledge. Written in richly mannered prose, with archaic...