Young Barnabas is a son of John Barty, ex boxing champion of England. He inherits an incredible amount of money from her mother's estate and decides to invest it in his future, educate himself and become a gentleman. His father, who desires for his son to be a boxing champion like him, disapproves of this and they fight. From this point Barnabas makes his mission to prove his father wrong and to accomplish his dream, but on that bumpy wait numerous adventures.

Jeffery Farnol (1878-1952) was a British writer known for writing romance novels, often set in the Georgian Era or English Regency period, and swashbucklers. Farnol largely initiated the Regency romantic genre.