A thirty-million-dollar inheritance will become Alice Morell's rightful bounty if she and her intellectual son Alaric can find a way to circumnavigate her only rivals for the money--four conniving and homicidal aunts...
This provocative book examines the vision of Australia in nineteenth-century English literature. The industrial revolution destroyed the myth of an idyllic rural way of life in England, and writers like Charles Dickens, Bulwer Lytton and Charles Read...