The Castle Made for Love

The Castle Made for Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782133771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Just eighteen, beautiful and intelligent, Yola Beauharnais lives a blessed Fairy tale life at her magnificent family castle on the Loire.

The Castle Made for Love

The Castle Made for Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782133771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Just eighteen, beautiful and intelligent, Yola Beauharnais lives a blessed Fairy tale life at her magnificent family castle on the Loire.

The Race For Love

The Race For Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782139117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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All her young life has been lived in the shadow of her father’s disgrace after he was caught cheating at cards at his Club in London and Alita Lang lives a dismal life under sufferance with her begrudging aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Langstone. In fact the only love in Alita’s lonely life is her passion for her uncle’s thoroughbred horses, especially her beloved stallion, Flamingo, who she has taught many tricks to. She spends most of her time in the Duke’s stables and can train the most unruly horse And now the Duke, desperate to raise money, is determined to sell them all to the brash American multi-millionaire who has just bought the neighbouring estate and its magnificent Marshfield House. Introduced to the handsome, blue-eyed and tanned Clint Wilbur as Alita Blair, an employee of the estate, she soon finds herself working for him on improvements to his stables and soon, through his consistent kindness and gentle thoughtfulness, she discovers an alluring new side to her new employer and ally. Suddenly Alita’s heart is racing as she realises that she is in love. But surely the race for love is already lost because the Duke is already scheming for his daughter, Hermione, to marry the eligible millionaire and join their two estates together.

Looking For Love

Looking For Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782139923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Left penniless by the death of her beloved parents, shy, naïve and unassumingly lovely Gilda Wyngate is bemused when her glamorous but spoilt sister, Heloise, arrives unexpectedly at the family’s country Manor House full of talk about London’s Social world. And the good-looking and rich Marquis of Staverton, whom she is determined to ensnare in marriage so that she can fulfil her ambitions and become a Marchioness.Sadly it is not to be. When poor Gilda finds her sister dead in the morning after taking too much laudanum to make her sleep, she sees a way out of the dreadful poverty she faces. She takes Helouise’s place, her glamorous London life and her home in Mayfair with her blind but generous Godmother, Lady Neyland.After all the two sisters had always looked remarkably alike. So who would ever notice?Little does she know that her kind heart will soon give her away. Little does she know that, in assuming her sister’s identity, she is also taking on a terrible crime, punishable by death or that the hateful Marquis, whom she has heard so much about, could be so overwhelmingly handsome and magnificent that he takes her breath away.Little does she realise that out of all her troubles true love will suddenly find her out of the blue and she will finally be enveloped in the happiness that has always eluded her.

A Victory for Love

A Victory for Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788670752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Riding in the woods the beautiful young Farica Chalfont encounters a handsome yet forlorn gentleman called John Hamilton, whom she is sure is about to commit suicide as he is holding a pistol in his hand.After intervening and talking to him she is instantly and irresistibly attracted to him, but, as she explains, she is already unwillingly promised in marriage to Fergus, the new Earl of Lydbrooke.Not only does she not love him, she feels sure that the Earl is marrying her only for her father’s large fortune and it is common knowledge that Fergus is wildly extravagant and therefore deeply in debt.Soon it is revealed that ‘John Hamilton’ is actually Ivan, the true Earl of Lydbrooke, who everyone thought had been killed at the Battle of Waterloo and replaced as the Earl by Fergus, who is only a distant nephew. On hearing that Ivan is alive, Fergus has tried not once but twice to murder him in the hope of holding onto the title, The Castle and the huge estates of the Brooke family.Now Farica and Ivan find that they are desperately caught up in ‘a crusade of right against wrong and of good against evil that has to be won’.But the real question is can love be the victor?

A Circus for Love

A Circus for Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788675959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Fleeing her scheming stepmother and a forced marriage, beautiful young heiress Thelma Fernhurst stumbles across a magnificent house like the Fairy Palace of her dreams. More amazing still, in its grounds she finds a circus, complete with lions and tigers and a Big Top – and loses her heart to its dashing owner, the Earl of Merstone! But the runaway’s dream turns to a nightmare when Thelma discovers that the Earl has an evil, scheming relative of his own – and unless a trembling Thelma can save him from a ravenous tiger, the Circus of Love will turn to a Circus of Death!

No Darkness for Love

No Darkness for Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782136800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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When beautiful Atalanta Lynton has a chance meeting with a dashing French artist on her way home to her father’s modest Vicarage from Combe Castle where her aunt and cousins reside, she is smitten by his handsome Gallic charm and his talent as an Impressionist artist.But no sooner than Paul Beaulieu, for that is his name, declares that he has fallen in love with her at first sight, she finds to her chagrin that her father has promised her hand in marriage to her cousin William, who is to become the British Ambassador to the newly independent country of Vallon and he has to be married to a suitable wife to take up such a prestigious post.Although appalled at the prospect of a loveless marriage to her cold pompous cousin, Atalanta sees no alternative but to yield to her parents’ will and the union will definitely ensure that she can provide for her impoverished parents and her brother and twin sisters.In Paris with her hated husband-to-be, the flame of her love is stoked once more by Paul’s unfailing ardour and, finding that her cousin already has a mistress who is with child, Atalanta now resolves that she must refuse to marry him.But an enraged William will stop at nothing to prevent her marrying Paul and it seems that their love is doomed before it can really blossom.

No Time For Love

No Time For Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788670329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Alone in the world after her mother dies of consumption in a Swiss sanatorium, the beautiful young Larina Milton’s only comfort was a mortally ill American, Elvin Farren, who befriends her and they have fascinating conversations about the next world and the meaning of life..But now he has gone back to his home in New York – perhaps forever.Larina’s relief to find that she has not caught her mother’s consumption is short-lived – her doctor delivers the terrible news to her that she has a rare heart disease, which will kill her in just twenty-one days!Desperate, she writes to Elvin, who had promised that alive or dead he would be at her side the moment she called out for him. Larina vows to do the same for him and they form a spiritual pact between them.Little does she know that her friend. Elvin, is one of the four sons of the immensely rich and famous Vanderfeld family of New York City and is abroad under his assumed name of ‘Farren’Suspecting that she is a gold-digger and could blackmail the family, as his other brother Harvey is running for President of the United States, Wynstan Vanderfeld lures Larina to the family Villa in Sorrento.And there mysteries unfold amid incomparable beauty and both the lovely Larina and the worldly millionaire despite endless problems eventually find time for love.

Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe

Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe PDF Author: Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135616779
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1951

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A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and readers quick access to the lives and work of a wide range of notable female writers from England and the Continent, from Aphra Behn to Emily Bronte, from Simone de Beauvoir to Isak Dinesen, from Bridget of Sweden to Hannah Arendt. Writers in more than 30 languages are included: French, Czech, Greek, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian, Catalan, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, and more. Covers 1,500 years and all major genres Going back 15 centuries, the Encyclopedia covers the authors of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, criticism, social commentary, feminist manifestos, romances, mysteries, memoirs, children's literature, biography, and other genres. In signed entries, some of which are mini-essays, experts in the field examine writers' lives and achievements, comment on individual works, place artistic efforts in historical context, provide insights and analyses, and present more information than can be easily found elsewhere without undertaking more exhaustive research. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of primary works. Indexed by language, nationality, genre, and century. Spotlights the interesting lives of notable writers In these pages students and readers will meet hundreds of interesting women writers who made lasting contributions to the intellectual and popular culture of their countries while often leading fascinating lives, among them: * AGATHA CHRISTIE , who wrote her first book in response to her sister's demand for a detective story that was harder to solve than the popular fiction of her day, and whose work has been translated in more languages than Shakespeare's. * HILDEGARD VON BINGEN , the 12th-century German mystic, who wrote profusely as a prophet, a poet, a dramatist, a physician, and a political moralist, often communicated with popes and princes, and exerted a tremendous influence on the Western Europe of her time * MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, whose 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus became a literary sensation around the world * ILSE BLUMENTHAL-WEISS, one of the few concentration camp survivors to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust in German verse * LINA WERTMULLER, who in addition to her work in films, has written plays for the stage and a novel, and who once was a member of a short-lived puppet theater that staged the works of Kafka. Special features: Ideal for quick reference and student research * Multicultural-covers over 30 languages and 15 centuries * Includes many contemporary writers * Provides essential biographic data on each writer * Each entry is followed by a chronological listing of the writer's published book-length works * Offers critical evaluations of major works * Indexes help find writers by country...research by time period...survey genres...focus on languages

Love At The Helm

Love At The Helm PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782137807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Fresh from heroic exploits in the Battle of Trafalgar, Captain Conrad ‘Tiger’ Horn has returned to Portsmouth take command of a magnificent new ship, The Invincible, which he is to sail to Antigua to defend British trading routes against American privateers and, of course, the French.But the fly in the ointment is that he is obliged to take with him on his voyage his cousin, Lady Delora Horn, whom he has never met but whom he already loathes, assuming that she is cut from the same cloth as her obnoxious brother, the Earl of Scawthorn, who has arranged for her to marry in Antigua a certain Lord Grammell, who is the Governor of the British island.Conrad at once feels sorry for her, as Lord Grammell is not only past sixty and notorious as a drunkard, he is also hugely fat, unpleasant, foul-mouthed and debauched.And he is only interested in marrying Delora for the large fortune she has inherited from her American mother as he will be able to control it once they are wed.But Delora’s appearance comes as a shock to Conrad. Far from the hard-faced mature woman he anticipates, she is young and utterly lovely with eyes the colour of the deep blue sea, golden hair, and with an air of unsophisticated and unspoilt innocence.Soon amid perilous battles on the high seas when Conrad is seriously wounded in the leg by enemy grapeshot, the beautiful Delora saves the Captain’s life and limb and love blossoms between them.But so does despair for she is already unwillingly betrothed to the monstrous Lord Grammell, who is waiting eagerly for her when The Invincible eventually does arrive in Antigua.

The Karma Of Love

The Karma Of Love PDF Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1782137106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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When the beautiful young Lady Orissa Fane is thrown out into the cold night by her hateful drunken stepmother, she flees to her brother Charles’s barracks for his help and encounters a stern Major Meredith who clearly disapproves of her wayward brother. At Charles’s suggestion she travels incognito to Delhi under the name of Mrs. Lane to ask for the support of her dear Uncle Henry, who is the Colonel in charge of his Regiment and on the ship she agrees to look after the grandchild of General Sir Arthur Critchley. Incredibly, the very same Major Meredith is on the same ship – and after a series of awkward misunderstandings an intense mutual dislike develops between them, so Orissa is glad to be free of him when they disembark at Delhi.She is thrilled to be back in India where she was brought up and relishes again everything that she has remembered and loved about the country.But to her dismay her Uncle Henry has left for a Fort on the North-West Frontier where he is battling against hostile tribes and their sinister backers, the Russians. So, enlisting the protection of a noble Sikh Sergeant-Major, she bravely sets off to join him. Little does she know what Fate holds in store for her along the way – terrible death-defying danger, another encounter with the hated Major Meredith and, if she lives long enough, love –