Lady Dorianna Dale is packing her trousseau for her illustrious Society wedding to the rich Lord Buxton.She does not love him, she cannot bear him to touch her and she hates the...

"There is nothing for it – we will have marry for money!The Strathcarrons have lived in splendour in Lednock Castle in Scotland for many generations, but the family fall on hard...

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...

Charles, Lord Hartley, was at his wits end. He had spent a fortune on his cousin John, and still the embittered John demanded more money.Charles knew he needed an heiress and he...

The Marquis and Marquise de Castillon together with their young son, Jean-Pierre, were forced to flee France for England when the French Revolution broke out in 1789.Jean-Pierre...

Lady Tamina Braithwaite is excited and happy to be secretly engaged to the handsome politician, Edmund Newson.However she is devastated when she discovers he is already betrothed...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (Greenwich, 1 April 1875 – Beverly Hills, February 10, 1932) was a writer, journalist, playwright and screenwriter.Together with Arthur Conan...

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. It is one of...

"The Masterpiece", as it is entitled in English, is a fictionalised account of the Impressionist circle around Paul Cezanne. Zola, who had become an eminent art critic,...