Robert Orange

A late-Victorian novel of society, conscience, and thwarted feeling by the writer known as John Oliver Hobbes.

At a glance Following characters whose ambitions and beliefs collide, it moves through drawing rooms… In the polished, watchful world of late-Victorian society, private feeling and public… Robert Orange moves among characters for whom love, ambition, and conviction pull in… What it's about The novel follows figures caught between the demands of the heart and…

The novel follows figures caught between the demands of the heart and the claims of principle, tracing how their choices play out against a background of political and social life.