| A Laodicean: A Story of To-day Contributor(s): Hardy, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 154684046X ISBN-13: 9781546840466 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 380 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. In the village there is an amateur photographer, William Dare, who is the illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy, an impoverished scion of the family. Captain De Stancy represents a dream of medieval nobility to Paula. She is attracted to both men for their different virtues but William Dare decides to intervene to promote his father in her affections. He fakes a telegram and photograph to make it appear that Somerset is leading a dissolute lifestyle. His subterfuge is discovered by Captain De Stancy's sister Charlotte who has befriended Paula. She decides to tell Paula the truth and Paula pursues Somerset to the continent where he has gone mistakenly believing Paula and the Captain to have been married. She finds him and they are reunited and marry. The castle burns down and Somerset proposes to build a modern house in its place... |