A Footman for the Peacock
Author: Rachel Ferguson
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 250
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Author: Rachel Ferguson
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lisa Karon Richardson
Publisher: Lion Fiction
Published: 2015-11-20
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1782641793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Miss Lydia Garrett's guardian is murdered, and the authorities refuse to investigate the odd circumstances, she vows to catch the culprit. The same night the Earl of Danbury is murdered in his bed. Against all odds it appears that the murders are related - and Anthony Douglas, the new Lord Danbury, is bent on revenge. The clues point to the former Earl's first naval command. In 1758 the Earl spirited away and hid the magnificent Peacock Throne at the behest of the Indian royal family. To draw out the murderer, Anthony and Lydia agree that they must locate the throne. However, they are not the only ones interested in the Peacock Throne. Marcus Wiltshire, agent of His Majesty's intelligence services, has received hints that Bonaparte intends to return the throne to India and leverage its mystical significance to foment rebellion and cut England off from her most important trading partner. When the amateur sleuths join forces with the professional agent, the quest for the throne leads them around the globe on an adventure steeped in danger, treachery, and romance.
Author: Rachel Ferguson
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-03
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781911413714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe peacock displayed himself and paraded the lawn, sometimes pausing to look up at the sky. Waiting? Listening? Guiding. No. Signalling. Controversial when first published in the early days of World War II, due to its treatment of a loathsome upper-crust family dodging wartime responsibility, A Footman for the Peacock can now be enjoyed as a scathing satire of class abuses, a comic masterpiece falling somewhere between Barbara Pym and Monty Python. Sir Edmund and Lady Evelyn Roundelay live surrounded by a menagerie of relations and retainers. The Roundelays' history of callous cruelty is literally etched on a window of the servants' quarters with the words "Heryn I dye, Thomas Picocke. 1792." Sir Edmund reflects cheerfully on the running footmen who have 'died off like flies' in the family's service. But now--amidst digressions on everything from family history and servant woes to the villagers' linguistic peculiarities and a song immortalizing the footman's plight--war threatens the Roundelays' smug superiority. What's more, it appears that the estate's peacock is a reincarnation of Thomas Picocke, and may be aiding the Nazi cause ... By turns giddy and incisive, hilarious and heartbreaking, A Footman for the Peacock is Rachel Ferguson at her very best. This new edition features an introduction by Elizabeth Crawford. 'The Roundelays are people to live with and laugh at and love' Punch
Author: John Bunyan
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kasey Michaels
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2015-12-29
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0373779062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The first of a new series"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Jo Beverley
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1101574860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLady May is back. And so is the scandal that sent her tumbling from her position as the toast of London, when her husband, the Earl of Maybury, was killed in a duel. Even a year of mourning hasn't quieted the rumors of her infidelity. Georgia Maybury is determined to regain her position in the beau monde, but a scarred ex-naval officer threatens her plans...
Author: Elizabeth Vail
Publisher: Entangled: Select
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1633750639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrederick Snow, first footman, is the perfect servant: efficient, hardworking, and completely bereft of emotion. Unbeknownst to his employers, he's the lost Duke of Snowmont, on the run from a suspicious stepfather and a powerful magic he can only control by burying his passions beneath his frosty demeanor. He's managed to hide behind his carefully ordered life until an impertinent miss arrives and challenges everything he thought he wanted. If Charlotte Erlwood wants to land a wealthy, titled husband at her great aunt's house party, she has to stop losing her temper – especially with inordinately handsome footmen. Perhaps if she recruits Frederick for her matrimonial schemes, she'll be able to direct her attention toward suitable single noblemen and away from inappropriate dalliances. But Frederick's frigid control is no match for Charlotte's irrepressible spirit, and her passionate kiss could summon the darker side of his magic...or wake his heart from its frozen sleep.
Author: E. Maslen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-02-20
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0230511929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.
Author: Jean Denis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-04-09
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780521314022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA translation of Jean Denis's Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50), with notes and an introduction.
Author: John Bunyan
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Published: 1892
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