Godolphin, Volume 4.

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"Godolphin, Volume 4" by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton is a satirical romance novel published in 1833.

Percy Godolphin, an idealistic man with a poet's heart, falls passionately in love with Constance Vernon, a beautiful and intelligent woman bound by a deathbed oath to her father. She has sworn to marry a powerful man for revenge, not love. As Constance rises among London's elite and marries another, their forbidden feelings threaten to unravel carefully laid plans in this sharp critique of early 19th-century British society.