Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope Fiction Classics Historical Psychological

<p> </p><p>                                       <strong>                              FROM MODEST LONDON CLERK -- TO WEALTHY MANOR SQUIRE</strong></p><p><strong>Here is one of Anthony Trollope's most critically successful novels received well by his contemporaries and yet experimental enough in execution to be almost modern.</strong></p><p>Henry Jones is just a modest callow fellow in a meek clerking job in London when he is summoned by his Uncle Indefer.</p><p>Indefer Jones is the squire of an estate named Llanfeare in Wales. He's dying. He'd like to bequeathe his manor and holdings to his beloved niece Isobel Brodrick -- but tradition dictates he will his land to a male relative with his name -- Jones.</p><p>Both Indefer and Isobel dislike Cousin Henry. Squire Jones goes ahead with his plan for his Last Will and Testament -- but at the last moment changes his heir to Isobel. But Squire Jones dies before the will sees the light of day. Cousin Henry inherits -- but then discovers the document in the library.</p><p>Will he have the nerve to destroy the will before lawyers -- and Isobel -- find it?</p>