Monatsarchive: April 2017

Dolly Dialogues – Anthony Hope

The Secret of the Tower, by Anthony Hope, was received by the author’s many admirers with enthusiastic pleasure, for it was many a moon since he has written a novel, not indeed since the war. The present tale is a mystery story with all the thrilling and hair-raising situations that the most exacting lover of baffling, romantic mystery novels could desire. The scene is laid in England after the great war and much mystery surrounds the occupants of the “Tower,” an old man, his companion and his servant. Much speculation as to their mode of living and the secretiveness of their weekly trips to London with a brown leather bag, which always accompanies them on … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Secret of the Tower – Anthony Hope

The Secret of the Tower, by Anthony Hope, was received by the author’s many admirers with enthusiastic pleasure, for it was many a moon since he has written a novel, not indeed since the war. The present tale is a mystery story with all the thrilling and hair-raising situations that the most exacting lover of baffling, romantic mystery novels could desire. The scene is laid in England after the great war and much mystery surrounds the occupants of the “Tower,” an old man, his companion and his servant. Much speculation as to their mode of living and the secretiveness of their weekly trips to London with a brown leather bag, which always … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Lucinda – Anthony Hope

Everything is ready for the fashionable London wedding of the heroine and the son of a famous old diplomat. But the bride has simply disappeared. Circumstantial evidence points to the fact that an Italian is connected with the girl’s disappearance. The outbreak of war just at this time postpones the chase for years.

This novel by the author of “The Prisoner of Zenda” and “Dolly Dialogues” is much more closely related to reality in life and character than most other books. One feels that Mr. Hope is now writing to please his own ideals of the art of fiction rather than to amuse the crowd.

Lucinda

Format: Paperback.

Lucinda.

ISBN: 9783849694630

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Beaumaroy Home from the Wars – Anthony Hope

The scene of this story of mystery and romance is laid in the little town of Inkston, near London, shortly after the world war. Interest centers in three characters: the “puzzling unaccounted-for Mr Beaumaroy,” recently of the British army overseas, now companion to an eccentric old man; the old man himself, Aloyslus William Saffron, lonely and crazed by the war, who lives in Tower cottage; and Dr Mary Arkroyd, who attends Mr Saffron in his last illness and who changes her mind about Hector Beaumaroy.

Beaumaroy Home from the Wars

Format: Paperback.

Beaumaroy Home from the Wars.

ISBN: 9783849694623

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

Biography of Anthony Hope (from Wikipedia):… Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Captain Dieppe – Anthony Hope

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.

Captain Dieppe

Format: Paperback.

Captain Dieppe.

ISBN: 9783849694616

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

Biography of Anthony Hope (from Wikipedia):

Hope was educated at St John’s School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister, being called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. He served his pupillage under the future Liberal Prime Minister … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Young Man’s Year – Anthony Hope

Mr. Anthony Hope offers from time to time a welcome relief from the special brand of seriousness that has come to be the hall-mark of the school of British novelists. Not that he fails to take himself seriously; on the contrary, few writers in England show a greater contrast between their earlier and their later work than the author of The Prisoner of Zenda and of the A Young Man’s Year. From the rainbow air-castles of sheer romance to the practical problem of a young man’s first start in the working world is surely a broad enough step to satisfy any demand that present-day fiction shall be serious. But the big difference between … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Mrs Maxon Protests – Anthony Hope

In “Mrs. Maxon Protests” Hope has presented with his usual brilliancy a study of the false position incurred by a thoroughly good woman when she defies fundamental conventionalities. Mrs. Maxon’s marriage is a failure, so is her attempt to find satisfaction outside the marriage tie. And, as she exclaims, “If both orthodoxy and unorthodoxy go wrong, what is a poor human woman to do?” Mr. Hawkins’ answer to this provides an interesting examination of the complexities of the divorce and separation question, and although he attempts no definite solution, his discussion exploits many suggestive theories of social philosophy. He touches a fundamental factor for solution when one of his characters remarks: “That’s to some … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...