An early Doyle novel of commercial villainy, as unscrupulous merchants scheme against a young heiress.
Books mentioned in The Firm of Girdlestone (4)
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “The opera happened to be 'Faust,' and the magnificent scenery and dresses astonished Kate”
The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray: “Thackeray's Esmond ... rubbed covers with Irving's Conquest of Granada”
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith: “Meredith's Richard Feveret rubbed covers with Irving's Conquest of Granada”
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving: “rubbed covers with Irving's Conquest of Granada and a tattered line of paper-covered novels”