Mayne Reed is a Quadroon, or Adventures in the Far West. Gift book bound in leather.

Thomas Mayne Reid is an English writer, author of adventure novels and works for children and youth, some of which were published under the pseudonym Captain Mayne Reid.

"Quadroonka" - a novel by Thomas Mayne Reed about love and adventures in the scenery of the American South - keeps the reader in suspense from the first pages.

A young Englishman Edward, while traveling in Louisiana, falls in love with an unusually beautiful and intelligent girl Aurora. To his joy, the feeling turns out to be mutual, but there is a serious obstacle between the young people: Edward's beloved is a slave. Aurora is a quadroon, that is, a quarter black, but even if she had only a drop of Negro blood in her, the laws and morals of Louisiana make it impossible for her to ally with a white man. And yet Edward is not going to give up happiness with his beloved - for her sake he is even ready to break the law…

The young man does not suspect that his determination is not to everyone's liking. He will face the treachery and cruelty of enemies and will face death more than once. However, friendship and selfless love will overcome all obstacles…