Excerpt from The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Peter's eyes met hers, took in her face. And suddenly his heart gave a jump. Then it stopped dead still, tingling, for a second. Then it flew off, racing perilously. - Oh, for reasons for the best reasons in the world but thereby hangs my tale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box is a charming novel by Henry Harland. The story revolves around the mysterious and enchanting snuff-box belonging to a cardinal, and the adventures and romances that unfold as a result. Harland's witty storytelling and engaging characters make this a delightful and enjoyable read for fans of light-hearted fiction.
Greatest Romance Classic Collection: Most Demanding Bestseller Books All Time: Hadrian the Seventh by Fr. Rolfe/ Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot/ The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel. In this Collection, we have created HTML Tables of Contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all Collections included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. ---- About Anthology: ----- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by “A Square”, the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. --- The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous. The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. Henry Spencer Ashbee discusses this novel in one of his bibliographies of erotic literature. ---- Hadrian the Seventh a Romance Hadrian the Seventh: A Romance (sometimes called Hadrian VII) is a 1904 novel by the English novelist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo". Rolfe's best-known work, this novel of extreme wish-fulfilment developed out of an article he wrote on the Papal Conclave to elect the successor to Pope Leo XIII. The prologue introduces us to George Arthur Rose (a transparent double for Rolfe himself): a failed candidate for the priesthood denied his vocation by the machinations and bungling of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical machinery, and now living alone with his yellow cat.
