The Gadfly
by Ethel Voynich
409 pages~7 hrs
“To save a nation, he had to destroy the man he used to be.”
After a crushing betrayal shatters his faith, Arthur Burton reinvents himself as the Gadfly, a biting satirist dedicated to overthrowing the tyranny of both Church and State. In the heat of 19th-century Italy's struggle for independence, he wages a daring campaign of wit and rebellion where every secret has a price.
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