Barbara: 8138 books

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...

In the economic collapse that follows the Napoleonic Wars, retired Ambassador, Sir Horace Lambourn, and his family are all but bankrupt and cannot meet their ever mounting bills. Suddenly, though, a last minute rescue appears in the form of the request for the hand in marriage of Sir Horace’s beautiful...

For demure young and beautiful Daniela Brooke it had been bad enough to find out that her much-loved late father, Lord Seabrooke, had been tricked into marriage by the use of drugs by a disreputable Parisian courtesan called Esmé Blanc. It was even worse to discover just four weeks after her father’s...

One of the youngest Colonels in the Duke of Wellington’s Army, Ivar Harling returns from the victorious Battle of Waterloo to Harlington House in London’s Berkeley Square. Suddenly a very rich man now that he has inherited the Dukedom of Harlington from his cousin, who has been killed in the War,...

The lovely young orphan Sedela Craven is very excited to hear that the Marquis of Windlesham is returning home from active service in the Duke of Wellington’s Army in France at the end of the long war against Napoleon Bonaparte. He, however, lingers on in London with his beautiful lover Lady Esther...

Con una colección de relatos, ocurrencias y frases que sólo Barbara Johnson podría concebir, los lectores reirán con las sorpresas inolvidables y alocadas de ser una madre. Madres. Ellas lo han visto todo: lo bueno, lo malo y lo chiflado. Y decidieron contarlo. La autora de éxitos de librería,...

Relaxing in the Bohemian spa of Marienbad after a secret mission on behalf of Kind Edward VII, Ian, Lord Arkely is appalled to overhear the sound of a woman being horribly ill-treated by a man in the adjacent hotel room – that of Prince Friederich of Wilzenstein and Her Royal Highness Princess Mariska....

After her mother Lottie’s death in Paris, penniless young Clova has no one to turn to, so she heads for Scotland – to the Clan Lottie abandoned when Clova was just seven. Then fate intervenes and a vast inheritance from her dead mother’s former lover makes her a rich woman. Nevertheless, she...

Socialite and ‘professional beauty’, Lady Odele Ashford, is taken aback when her lover, the notorious womaniser Prince Ivan Katinouski, asks her to find him a young bride, who will give him the children he has always wanted, specifying that she must be pure and innocent and of noble English birth....

While her beloved parents were alive, beautiful young Cledra Melford had basked in the radiance of their love, barely noticing they were poor. But since they were tragically killed and she came to live with her hateful, bitter uncle Sir Walter Melford she has been cruelly abused. The violent beatings...

Das sind Inselträume: Gletscher, die Eisberge ins Meer schicken, Berge, die aus dem Inland-Eis ragen, Pferde mit Mähnen, die im Wind wehen, die Farben des Nordlichts und des Packeises. Jedenfalls dann, wenn die Inseln im hohen Norden liegen und Spitzbergen oder Lofoten, Island, Färöer oder Grönland...

Jung und schutzlos, fühlt Alyna nur Abscheu gegenüber dem sinnesfreudigen Prinzen Ahmadi, mit dem ihre Mutter sie unbedingt verheiraten will. Aus lauter Verzweiflung beschlieβt Alyna, sich das Leben zu nehmen. Glücklicherweise ist Lord Dorrington, ein bekannter Stutzer, zur Stelle und überzeugt...

Vada, eine junge, reiche, amerikanische Erbin, soll laut dem Wunsch ihrer Mutter einen englischen Duke heiraten. Anders als ihre Mutter träumt Vada aber nicht von einem Titel und Besuchen bei der englischen Königin, sondern von wahrer Liebe. Als sie auf ihrer Reise zu ihrem Bräutigam in Paris Halt...

Scritto tra il 1970 e il 1972 e pubblicato postumo nel 1986, quest’ultimo romanzo di Barbara Pym è al tempo stesso ironico e cupo. Ironico perché dipinge con l’usuale maestria un ambiente ristretto, quello accademico, fatto di grette rivalità e gremito di uomini egocentrici e superficiali....