A Factory Of Cunning Pa - Couverture souple

Stockley, Philippa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156030675 ISBN 13 : 9780156030670

Editeur : Harvest, 2006

Synopsis

Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley’s American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox—on the run from a scandalous French past—who takes a new identity, determined to reinvent herself. She must pit her formidable skills for revenge against Earl Much, a British aristocrat with no less notorious a past and easily her match in sinfulness and intrigue. Between these two swirls a story featuring venal lords, wronged maidens, and reprobate clergymen, transporting readers from bawdy houses to country estates—places where the pleasures of the flesh are both high comedy and serious business.

A Factory of Cunning takes readers to the world immortal­ized in Dangerous Liaisons. And, like Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, the vividly rendered setting and characters give the thrill of a fresh discovery.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Philippa Stockley is a deputy editor at the Evening Standard and also works as an artist and illustrator. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvest
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156030675
• ISBN 13: 9780156030670
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 366
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