Member and the Radical

Two novels by the 18th-century Scottish author that ';focus on the foibles and fumbles, the humor and waste of people . . . of political ambition' (The National). Galt's two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critiq...