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1) Truxton King
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A handsome, good natured young fellow ranges on the earth looking for romantic adventures and is finally enmeshed in most complicated intrigues in Graustark.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt:
Two events of great importance took place in Tinkletown on the night of May 6, 1918. The first, occurring at half-past ten o'clock, was of sufficient consequence to rouse the entire population out of bed—thereby creating a situation, almost unique, which allowed every one in town to participate in all the thrills of the second.
5) Graustark
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A story of love behind a throne, telling how a young American met a lovely girl and followed her to a new and strange country.
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What is handsome but middle-class Braden Thorpe, M.D., to do? His beloved Anne is betrothed to none other than his wealthy grandfather, nearly four times her own age, and Anne's conniving mother is determined that the match will succeed. Schemes and counter-schemes abound in this Edwardian drama played out among the well-bred and well-heeled of New York high society. Author George Barr McCutcheon (1866– 1928) was an American popular novelist and...
Author
Publisher
Dodd Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films."
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9) The Flyers
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt:
"A cold, thick drizzle, blown by a biting wind that sent chills to the marrow, marred the early spring night, and kept indoors the few hardy members who had haunted the clubhouse since the season's opening a week before. Not more than a dozen loyal devotees to the sports of the open air lounged about the big clubhouse. Three or four rangy young women in sweaters and jackets strove bravely to dispel the gloom of the night as it settled down...
10) The Flyers
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt:
"A cold, thick drizzle, blown by a biting wind that sent chills to the marrow, marred the early spring night, and kept indoors the few hardy members who had haunted the clubhouse since the season's opening a week before. Not more than a dozen loyal devotees to the sports of the open air lounged about the big clubhouse. Three or four rangy young women in sweaters and jackets strove bravely to dispel the gloom of the night as it settled down...
12) Yollop
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films.
McCutcheon was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Despite having no formal education himself, his father emphasized the importance of literature and urged his...
Author
Language
English
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Description
This classic tragicomic tale from George Barr McCutcheon transforms everyone's favorite caviar-and-champagne dream into a soul-shaking test of mistrust and reckless spending Popular, good-looking, and enterprising, Montgomery Brewster is the toast of New York. While celebrating his twenty-fifth birthday among friends, Monty receives word that his grandfather has died. Before long, New York is abuzz with the news. When Monty inherits $1 million from...