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If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewer!' Independent 'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris _____________ Returning home from the battle of Waterloo to claim his title as the new Seventh Earl of St Erth, Gervase Frant is met with surprising hostility from his family. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and young half-brother he detects open disappointment that he survived the wars. The tensions in the household only worsen a...
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Excerpt: "DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS: Admiral Grice (Retired), a testy old gentleman of about sixty-five, with the manner of an old sea dog, of ruddy complexion, with white hair and whiskers. William Faraday, a well-preserved man of about sixty-five. Fashionable, superficial and thoroughly selfish. Colonel Smith, a dignified, dryly humorous man of military bearing, about forty years old. Robert Tarver, an empty-headed young swell. Henry Steele and James Raleigh, two young men of about thirty and thirty-five respectively. Martin, a dignified old family servant. Celia Faraday, an unaffected woman of twenty-nine, with a sense of humor. Madge (Mrs. Rockingham) and Evelyn (Lady Trenchard), handsome, well-dressed, fashionable women of twenty-five and twenty-seven respectively. Phyllis, the youngest sister, a charming and pretty but thoughtlessly selfish girl of twenty. Mrs. Chisholm Faraday, of Chicago (Aunt Ida), a florid, quick-tempered, warm-hearted woman of fifty or thereabouts."
Includes reports from the Chancery, Probate, Queen's bench, Common pleas, and Exchequer divisions, and from the Irish land commission.
The aim of this anthology is to present a selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture. The plays shun the earlier realistic, sentimental, and melodramatic conventions of Spanish American theater. Instead, they reflect the tenor of the dramatic imagination of the mid-to-late twentieth century—an imagination that sought new forms and ways of expressing a new awareness of the Spanish American dilemma. In selecting these plays, William I. Oliver looked for more than mere illustrations of these changes. As a practicing director and playwright, he sought works that are effective on the stage as well as on the page...
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