The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, The American Heiress marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James.
Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts’, suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage.
Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora’s story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James.
- File Name:the-american-heiress-by-daisy-goodwin.epub
- Original Title:The American Heiress: A Novel
- Creator:Daisy Goodwin
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B004RCNS9C
- Publisher:St. Martin's Press
- Date:2011-06-20T18:30:00+00:00
- File Size:414.804 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Part One
- 2. Chapter 1 The Hummingbird Man
- 3. Chapter 2 A Spirit of Electricity
- 4. Chapter 3 The Hunt
- 5. Chapter 4 Hot Water
- 6. Chapter 5 The Black Pearl
- 7. Chapter 6 A Link in the Chain
- 8. Chapter 7 Bows and Arrows
- 9. Chapter 8 We Have a Rubens
- 10. Chapter 9 The Double Duchess
- 11. Part Two
- 12. Chapter 10 Mrs Van Der Leyden Pays a Call
- 13. Chapter 11 Euston Station
- 14. Chapter 12 Two Cigarettes
- 15. Chapter 13 The Coiled Serpent
- 16. Chapter 14 Florence Dursheimer’s Day Out
- 17. Chapter 15 ‘That Spot of Joy’
- 18. Chapter 16 Madonna and Child
- 19. Chapter 17 Bridgewater House
- 20. Chapter 18 An Ideal Husband
- 21. Chapter 19 ‘The Faint Half-Flush’
- 22. Chapter 20 ‘That Pictured Countenance’
- 23. Part Three
- 24. Chapter 21 At Sea
- 25. Chapter 22 The Homecoming
- 26. Chapter 23 ‘A Bough of Cherries’
- 27. Chapter 24 Protocols
- 28. Chapter 25 Eros and Psyche
- 29. Chapter 26 ‘Never to Stoop’
- 30. Chapter 27 ‘Then all Smiles Stopped’
- 31. Chapter 28 ‘The Dropping of the Daylight’
- 32. Chapter 29 ‘Taming a Sea Horse’
- 33. Chapter 30 ‘A Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Name’
- 34. Acknowledgements
Daisy Goodwin
