A restless young Englishman travels among his own complacent class, questioning its hypocrisies.
Books mentioned in The Island Pharisees (5)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: “'Madame Bovary!' he said quizzically, reading the title of the book on the little fat man's bookrest”
A Thousand and One Nights: “he took up a volume of the 'Arabian Nights', which some member had left reposing on the book-rest”
Market Harborough by George John Whyte-Melville: “he wavered between purchasing a book called Market Hayborough, which he had read and would certainly enjoy a second time”
King John by William Shakespeare: Epigraph: "'But this is a worshipful society' KING JOHN"
The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle: “Meanwhile he wavered between purchasing a book called Market Hayborough, which he had read and would certainly enjoy a second time, and Carlyle's French Revolution, which he had not read and was doubtful of enjoying; he felt that he ought to buy the latter, but he did not relish giving up the former.”