nation

The novel is about a young woman of both English and Chinese descent, who must choose between lovers of both races, between East and West. Neither effort, nor suffering, nor experience can give perfection to any person, nor any race. Humanity, individual or herd, can only strive – never fully triumph or to fulfill. But there are separate people, there are different people: vintage masculinity, vintage...

Guy Ducaine is a recent graduate of Oxford University. Through a series of unfortunate events he is penniless and starving in the rural town of Brasters. Seeking to make a few shillings, he schedules a lecture on local history. On the same time, Lord Rowchester invites the officer and explorer Colonel Mostyn Ray to the village to speak. Ducaine’s lecture fails and he returns to his small house and...

Miss Sadie Loyes, the manageress of the Hotel Weltmore Typewriting and Secretarial Bureau, set down the receiver of the telephone which had its place upon her desk and looked thoughtfully around at the eleven young ladies who comprised her present staff. She stood there, an angular, untidy-looking person, tapping a pencil against her teeth, unconscious arbitress, not only of the fate of two very interesting...

Przełom XIX i XX wieku. Cora Cash jest jedyną dziedziczką ogromnej fortuny, co czyni ją najbogatszą panną w Ameryce. Jest niewiarygodnie piękna i uprzywilejowana. Wychowała się w domu wzorowanym na Wersalu, a na jej debiutancki bal przyszło ośmiuset gości. Jest pewna, że każde drzwi stoją przed nią otworem. Jednak gdy matka zabiera ją do Anglii, by tam znaleźć dla niej odpowiednio urodzonego narzeczonego,...