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Title: The Duchess of Wrexe
Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary
Author: Hugh Walpole
Release Date: July 5, 2010 [eBook #33086]
Language: English
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THE DUCHESS OF WREXE
Her Decline and Death
A Romantic Commentary
by
HUGH WALPOLE
Author of "Fortitude," etc.
New York
George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1914,
By George H. Doran Company
TO
MY MOTHER
A SMALL EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE
BEYOND WORDS
"And we'll have fires out of the Grand Duke's Wood."
_Letter to Maria Gisborne_
THE RISING CITY: I
THE DUCHESS OF WREXE
_NOTE: This is an age of Trilogies and Sequels. The title at the
beginning of this book, "The Rising City: I," may lead nervous readers
to fear yet another attempt in that extended and discursive direction_.
_To reassure them I wish to emphasize this point--that_ The Duchess of
Wrexe _is entirely a novel complete and independent in itself. It is
grouped, with the two stories that will follow it, under the heading of
"The Rising City" because the three novels will be connected in place,
in idea, and in sequence of time. Also certain of the same characters
will appear in all three books. But the novels are not intended as
sequels of one another, nor is "The Rising City" a Trilogy.--H. W._
CONTENTS
BOOK I: THE DUCHESS
I Felix Brun, Dr. Christopher, Rachel Beaminster--They
Are Surveyed by the Portrait
II Rachel
III Lady Adela
IV The Pool
V She Comes Out
VI Fans
VII In the Heart of the House
VIII The Tiger
IX The Golden Cage
X Lizzie and Breton
XI Her Grace's Day
XII Defiance of the Tiger--I
XIII Defiance of the Tiger--II
BOOK II: RACHEL
I The Pool and the Snow
II A Littl
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