A romantic adventure yarn of plotting and corruption largely set against the panorama of Imperialist Russia but with some of the skulduggery taking place in the major capitals of Europe.

An old Etonian and half Russian, Prince Paul Alexis, inherits the Osterno estate in the Steppes. Naive and honest, but helped by experienced campaigner Steinmetz, he forms a progressive but illegal Charity League to succour the needs of the starving uneducated peasantry who are ravaged by cholera. When the League is betrayed there are severe consequences for the neighbouring nobility and Paul himself only just escapes a violent death at the hands of his own serfs. Who has betrayed them? Is it Claude de Chauxfille Paul's erstwhile rival in love or is the beautiful Etta, his wife, keeping more secrets than he or Steinmetz can guess?

With intrigue and deception at every turn 'The Sowers' was Merriman's biggest bestseller eventually reprinted thirty times.

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	12 hrs

Media	Compact Disc	Audio Tape
Media Qty	12	8
Audio Format	CD-DA	Analogue
Book Code	VI-124CD	VI-124TA
ISBN	978 1 86015 036 4	978 1 86015 480 5
Price	£28.99	£24.99

Hugh Stowell Scott (1862 - 1903) was an English novelist (under the pen name of Henry Seton Merriman). He was a member of the firm of Henry Scott and Sons, and was for some years an underwriter at Lloyd's. Having a strong literary bent, he latterly devoted himself to writing novels, many of which had great popularity.

His literary career began in 1889 with The Phantom Future, and he made his first decided hit with his Russian story, The Sowers (1896), which was followed by many other well-constructed novels remarkable for excellence of plot and literary handling. He worked with great care, and his best books hold a high place in modern fiction. He was unusually modest and retiring in character.

The author was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being undertaken with his friend Stanley Weyman. He was about forty when he died at Melton, near Ipswich, in November 1903.

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