Novel 166: Edward Dutton Cook, Hobson's Choice (1866)
A bachelor barrister goes to visit his aunt—and his heiress cousin—at a seaside town.
Here is another lively novel by Cook (see Novels 040, 111), this one relatively brief.
“An afternoon spent on Hobson’s Choice will be spent pleasantly, and produce no small crop of apparently causeless laughs in secret places afterwards, as the better passages return suddenly to the memory.” Spectator, December 29, 1866
“A single volume of light and sparkling prose, that may be read through in a railway journey.” Athenaeum, January 26, 1867
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