Download or read book Richard Darlington written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatization of Sir Walter Scott's The Surgeon's Daughter tells how an ambitious politician, Richard Darlington, murders his wife to further his political career, becoming the epitome of the saying, "All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."