Subjects: Historical fiction, PR, Inheritance and succession -- Fiction, United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- Fiction, Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction, Americans -- England -- Fiction, Twins -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, Brothers -- Fiction, Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760 -- Fiction, I
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In a late eighteenth century setting, between fashionable London and backward Virginia, two twin brothers from the nobility spend their formative period trying to flee a domineering dowager mother in different ways, the older a saturnine, melancholy character, the younger an easy going type. Both, in their own way, succeed; but both reach old age feeling themselves equally swindled. The usual Thackeray touch of good humoured aristocratic melancholy aimed at bourgeois philisteism.
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