THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND

The Adventures of Harry Richmond is a romance by George Meredith with both picaresque features and melodramatic. Also may be noticed autobiographical sections which don't make romance boring for a reader. The plot of the story tells about a young man torn between the conservative, commonsense rearing of his landowning grandfather and the romantic, fantastical schemes of his dashing, but penniless father. The book reads like a serious comedy of manners with its final struggle of duty and imagination, love and shame culminating in intense poetic tragedy.