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Dolly Dialogues
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 Secret of the Tower
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 […]
Lucinda
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 […]
Beaumaroy Home from the Wars
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; […]
Captain Dieppe
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 […]
A Young Man’s Year
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 […]
Mrs Maxon Protests
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, […]
Second String
Second String – Anthony Hope Second String, by Anthony Hope,brings to mind a new tendency in British fiction which has quite been creeping in during the last years of the 19th century; namely, the tendency to concern itself more and more with the social life of middle class people rather than the upper circles. Second […]
The Great Miss Driver
The Great Miss Driver – Anthony Hope Although among his more recent writings, the author of The Dolly Dialogues has done some rather serious and careful work, there is no exaggeration in saying that in literarv technique and human interest and the various other qualities that go to make good fiction The Great Miss Driver […]
Helena’s Path
Helena’s Path – Anthony Hope For clever dialogue and spirited situations Anthony Hope is eminently satisfactory. „Helena’s Path“ contains both these characteristics, and much beside; a keen appreciation of humorous values and a delightful emotional restraint. Helena’s path is the bone of contention between Helena and the English earl whose estate joins hers. It is […]