One day their teacher happens to mention that the Spartans sometimes exposed their unwanted infants to the elements, and Harris finds this Idea Intriguing. The two are nearly Inseparable, but it is usually Harris who takes the lead. Like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Harris and Bostock have a close but somewhat lopsided friendship. The central characters are two twelve-year-old boys: Harris, a clever but mischievous son of a prominent physician, and Bostock, a not-so-clever son of a retired ship captain. In The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris, published In 1971, Garfield returns to eighteenth-century England, but this time his characters are a bit more affluent if not more respectable.
Leon Garfield explores the underside of eighteenth-century England, it is a book about pickpockets, prisoners, and an array of other characters who exist on the fringes of society. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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