Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India

 Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India by F. Marion Crawford, published in 1882, is a romantic and adventurous novel set in colonial India. The story follows Mr. Isaacs, a wealthy and mysterious diamond merchant of mixed heritage, navigating love, spirituality, and cultural tensions in a rapidly changing society. Blending elements of Eastern mysticism with Western literary style, the novel offers insight into British-Indian relations and 19th-century societal contrasts. It was Crawford’s debut novel and gained him immediate literary recognition.