# Modern literature: a novel, Volume 1 (of 3)

Author: Bisset, Robert, 1759-1805

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68915

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Modern+literature%3A+a+novel%2C+Volume+1+%28of+3%29+Bisset&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

SOON after the end of the war that was concluded by the peace of 1763, two gentlemen belonging to a corps that had returned from the Havannah, leaving their regiment in the South of England, were journeying northwards to visit the place of their nativity. Neither had in the course of their campaigns acquired opulent fortunes; but they had both made such progress in the road to wealth, that without any reasonable charge of prodigality or imprudence, in revisiting their relations they could indulge in the comforts of a postchaise. Travelling not being then effected with the modern rapidity, they proposed in a week to reach the capital of Scotland. Having set out on their expedition, they on...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-literature-a-novel-volume-1-of-3-68915/chapters/10/index.md)