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The Squire
The Squire tells the story of John Mytton, a Nineteenth Century drunkard, gambler and rake who ruined the lives of many, particularly his own family, by his profligacy and arrogance.
It is not a history, or a biography; it is a novel, an imaginary account, based in fact, of a remarkable individual who lived more than two hundred years ago. Squire John Mytton was not necessarily a unique individual of his time. There were plenty of crazy, and completely insane landowners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who matched his excesses in many different ways, but John Mytton’s life is well documented.
This is not a WOK friendly story, either. No attempt has been made to make it so. It recounts many of the anecdotes made at the time about John Mytton and, reflects the elitist, inequal and plainly brutal society of the times.
It is not a history, or a biography; it is a novel, an imaginary account, based in fact, of a remarkable individual who lived more than two hundred years ago. Squire John Mytton was not necessarily a unique individual of his time. There were plenty of crazy, and completely insane landowners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who matched his excesses in many different ways, but John Mytton’s life is well documented.
This is not a WOK friendly story, either. No attempt has been made to make it so. It recounts many of the anecdotes made at the time about John Mytton and, reflects the elitist, inequal and plainly brutal society of the times.
320 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 11, 2024
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