The Adventures of a Jesuit. Interspersed with several remarkable characters and scenes in real life.

The Adventures of a Jesuit. Interspersed with several remarkable characters and scenes in real life. - Anonymous An interesting aniticipation of the "Gothic" proper - conspiracies, involuted plots, suggestions of unintentional incest, and the wicked, wicked Catholic Church. The Jesuits in particular are branded to a man as schemers, hypocrites, politicians, and womanizers (of course, where there's smoke...) The "mysterious solitary" who carries around his own secret and everyone else's also plays a part; in fact, he holds the plot together, à la Gothic, for about the first volume and a half of this 2-vol. opus. HOwever, the author then devotes his last ten chapters to getting his hero to England, convincing him of the error of his ways, and converting him to a true Protestant. There are no horrors of the Gothic variety - a couple of straw beds in a prison cell is about as close as it comes. But one of the more interesting novels I've read from this decade. [These notes made in 1982:].