Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 1927
Category :
ISBN :
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Craven House Collection
Author : Christina McKnight
Publisher : La Loma Elite Publishing
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945089466
Craven House
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0349141525
'All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down - and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on - the young Patrick Hamilton, with loving, horrified fascination, first mapped out the territory that he would make, uniquely, his own. Although many of Hamilton's lifelong interests are here, they are handled with a youthful brio and optimism conspicuously absent from his later work. The inmates of Craven House have their foibles, but most are indulgently treated by an author whose world view has yet to harden from scepticism into cynicism. The generational conflicts of Hamilton's own youth thread throughout the narrative, with hair bobbing and dancing as the battle lines. That perennial of the 1920s bourgeoisie, the 'servant problem', is never far from the surface, and tensions crescendo gradually to a resolution one climactic dinnertime.
House of Shadows
Author : Nicola Cornick
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369719662
The wooded hills of Oxfordshire conceal the remains of the aptly named Ashdown House—a wasted pile of cinders and regret. Once home to the daughter of a king, Ashdown and its secrets will unite three women across four centuries in a tangle of intrigue, deceit and destiny… In the winter of 1662, Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, is on her deathbed. She entrusts an ancient pearl, rumored to have magic power, to her faithful cavalier William Craven for safekeeping. In his grief, William orders the construction of Ashdown Estate in her memory and places the pearl at its center. One hundred and fifty years later, notorious courtesan Lavinia Flyte hears the maids at Ashdown House whisper of a hidden treasure, and bears witness as her protector Lord Evershot—desperate to find it—burns the building to the ground. Now in the present day, a battered mirror and the diary of a Regency courtesan are the only clues Holly Ansell has to finding her brother, who has gone missing researching the mystery of Elizabeth Stuart and her alleged affair with Lord Craven. As she retraces his footsteps, Holly’s quest will soon reveal the truth about Lavinia and compel her to confront the stunning revelation about the legacy of the Winter Queen. Previously published.
Gilded Mansions
Author : Wayne Craven
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393067545
The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth--especially where their homes were concerned. They erected French chateaus and Italian palazzos on New York's Fifth Avenue, at Newport, and elsewhere, often taking inspiration from Parisian styles of the Second Empire. They rejected more modest American styles just as they rejected middle-class society, and for interior decoration they turned to such artisans as Tiffany, Herter Brothers, and Allard's of Paris. Immensely readable and illuminated with 250 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations, this is the fascinating story of America's first millionaire society, the way they lived and partied, and the lush artistic and cultural legacy they established.
Peter Black and the mystery of Craven's Lake
Author : Simon Halliday
Publisher : Simon Halliday
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 0955125707
London: Its Celebrated Characters and remarkable Places
Author : J. Heneage Jesse
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382109492
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
London
Author : John Heneage Jesse
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1871
Category : London (England)
ISBN :
London
Author : George Hamilton Cunningham
Publisher :
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1927
Category : London (England)
ISBN :
Ida Craven
Author : Jessie Cadell
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1876
Category : English fiction
ISBN :