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The Member And The Radical, Paperback / softback Book

The Member And The Radical Paperback / softback

Part of the Canongate Classics series

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Galt's two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832.

The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique of political self-seekings.

Its hero is a Scot, newly returned from India, who purchases a seat in a rotten borough.

As a study of the corruption of the pre-reform parliament it is unsurpassed. The Radical is a study of narrow-minded, humour-less fanaticism.

Galt's aim is to demonstrate the fragility of the existing order and the closeness of anarchy to the surface of society.

This is the first republication of The Radical since its original edition.

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