Hope Anthony: 156 books

A chance invitation to spend time at the luxurious manse of the Count of Fieramondi sparks a mystery that ensnares the dashing Captain Dieppe, a French gentlemen who seems to have a preternatural ability to sniff out intrigue and dastardly deeds. Can Dieppe put things right before it's too late?

“There's ingratitude for you! ” Miss Dolly Foster exclaimed suddenly.

In this 1907 novel, a young English lord retires to Scarsmoor Castle to write his autobiography.  There he encounters Helena, a beautiful neighbor who blocks his access to the beach by closing off a private pathway.  As tensions rise between the neighbors, so, too, does a passion that surprises them both. 

Example in this ebook CHAPTER I LIFE IS RECOMMENDED The changeful April morning that she watched from the window of her flat looking over the river began a day of significance in the career of Trix Trevalla—of feminine significance, almost milliner's perhaps, but of significance...

A study of modern marriage as it exists in modern London life especially. Three couples are closely described, and the author writes in the most uncompromising English and discusses some of the most intricate problems of "double harness." Uncontrollable temper, increasing idealism, love...

This is the story of a King who is weak and sick. Many battles go on to either save or dethrone the king. After the end of these battles, everything comes at the right place. Thus, the Castle of Zenda becomes a witness to the great political tussle.     The original flavour of these classics...

This new story is in the author's most finished and delicate style. The gallant Captain is a French soldier of fortune, and the surprising adventures into which he is projected, by his choice of a night's lodging in the Castle of Fieramondi, form the basis of a characteristically ingenious and interesting tale.

Rupert of Hentzau is the dark sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda. Full of humor and swashbuckling feats of heroism, the tale is also a satire on the politics of 19th-century Europe.

“The stories are without exception bright, racy, readable, clever.” So writes the London Literary World in its review of this collection of tales, which includes the popular narrative, “The Wheel of Love.” As comedies these stories are filled with wit, ingenuity, and satire and while the plots are varied, each possesses a light romantic spirit.

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an eminent man; as it was, he turned out only a singularly erratic individual. So much for common...