Handley Cross, Or Mr. Jorrocks’s Hunt (Folio Society Edition) – Robert Smith Surtees

Upon the invitation of the snobbish populace, wealthy but unsophisticated London grocer John Jorrocks arrives in the fashionable spa town of Handley Cross to take over the local fox hunt as Master of Hounds. This uproarious Victorian satire chronicles the clash between Jorrocks’s unbridled, vulgar passion for ‘unting and the local gentry’s customs. Aided by his inimitable huntsman, Pigg, the self-made sportsman’s chaotic and hilarious misadventures in the field and among the ‘bon ton’ prove him to be one of English literature’s great comic characters.