The Gadfly. Trilogy

He was young, naive, in love, filled with ideas of freedom and romantic illusions. He found himself deceived, slandered, rejected, and despised. He disappeared, faking his own suicide, and returned home after thirteen years—under a false name, with a disfigured appearance, a twisted fate, and a tormented heart. He appeared before people he once knew and loved dearly, as a cynical mocker with a resonant and biting journalistic pseudonym, The Gadfly. Few managed to see behind this mask the passionate, impulsive, noble nature of a man still faithful to the beautiful ideals of his youth... "The Gadfly" (1897) is the first and, as it is considered, the best novel by the English writer Ethel Lilian Voynich. Voynich returns to the fate of her hero thirteen years later in the novel "Interrupted Friendship" (1910), which tells of his life in South America. A few decades later, the last novel from the celebrated Gadfly cycle is released—"Take Off Your Shoes" (1945), centered around Beatrice Telford, the great-grandmother of the legendary hero.