The resignatin of a distinguished cabinet minister at the height of his career, and his sudden rejection by the woman he loves, leads Martin Radford, history graduate, to seek the solution to the mystery.
The journals of Logan Mountstuart chronicle his eighty-five years of life, from his boyhood in Uruguay to his education at Oxford, his wartime exploits, his career as an art dealer, and his retirement in France.
[In this novel, the author] tell[s] a ... compelling story, in dense imaginative detail, about characters with complex, and convincing, emotional lives.-Back cover.
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The lives of two friends are contrasted in Edwardian London. Katharine Hillbery is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents' home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until…
The lives of two friends are contrasted in Edwardian London. Katharine Hillbery is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents' home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until…
The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies written in Latin. In this book, the author presents Nepos as a valuable witness to…