A charming Irish rogue, Palliser Wentwood leaves New Zealand and his family to seek his fortune in England, finding a job as a butler and posing as a widower to woo the shy, conventional, and obese Blanche Lovelace, while his wife back home is faced ...
Musician-turned-wine-merchant Crawford Hollander has done well from his deal with the devil. Successful, dangerously charming, and surrounded by a circle of adoring women, he has cajoled, manipulated, and cheated his way to riches. But Crawford has a...
Jenner Ransfield, a man endowed with a brilliant academic mind, personal magnetism, but no self-control, tormented by demons of Laurentian sexuality and Calvinist upbringing, fumes out his existence on a farm in Somerset, teaching at a lowly Agricult...