‘How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!’When the beautiful Lucia Mountford’s mother remarries less than a year after her father’s death on the Titanic,...

"I do not wish to be the Earl! I would much rather go back to London."On his return from India, Lord Robert Templeton is distraught to find his family home, Ledbury Hall, plunged...

Em "Pensamentos de paz durante um ataque aéreo", Virginia Woolf vai nos conduzindo na busca por nossa serenidade perdida. Como ter um pensamento de paz enquanto bombas caem ao...

Hugo, Earl of Ruven, is sailing home after ten years in India, where he served with his regiment. His grandfather, the old Earl, has died and Hugo has inherited the title and...

After her quiet life in the Highlands of Scotland, the Laird's daughter Ola Mcnewton is looking forward to going to London to take part in Queen Victoria's Jubilee. At first it...

Sylvia, daughter of the Duke of Belham, is bored with the various young men she meets at Lady Lamborne's masked ball. At last, she escapes their attentions and makes her way into...

The Earl of Cariston is faced with insuperable problems as he has completely run out of money. He has sold everything on his estate that he can, but even so there is nothing he...

Carina was alone in the world and unsure of what the future held for her.Then a troupe of musicians, called 'Bertie's Beauties', had an accident outside her gates and she found...

Venetia was very lonely after the death of her parents.So when her cousin Mary begged her to help to save her from a forced marriage, Venetia was ready.Mary was in love with...

PREFACE.In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries. The...