Cover of Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor

Our American Cousin

by Tom Taylor

84 pages~1 hrs

Old-world manners meet New-world chaos in a battle of wit and wealth.

Asa Trenchard is the ultimate outsider, a brash American who lands in the heart of his refined British relatives' aristocratic lives. As he navigates a maze of inheritance and schemes, his unfiltered honesty turns high society upside down in this sharp-witted classic comedy of manners.

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