The queen of hearts / / Wilkie Collins
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| Autore: |
Collins Wilkie <1824-1889, >
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| Titolo: |
The queen of hearts / / Wilkie Collins
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : MysteriousPress.com : , : Open Road Media Integrated Media, , 2015 |
| ©1859 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (619 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico: | Detective and mystery stories, English |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""LETTER OF DEDICATION TO EMILE FORGUES""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER I: OURSELVES""; ""CHAPTER II: OUR DILEMMA""; ""CHAPTER III: OUR QUEEN OF HEARTS""; ""CHAPTER IV: OUR GRAND PROJECT""; ""BROTHER OWEN�S STORY OF THE SIEGE OF THE BLACK COTTAGE""; ""BROTHER GRIFFITH�S STORY OF THE FAMILY SECRET""; ""BROTHER MORGAN�S STORY OF THE DREAM-WOMAN""; ""BROTHER GRIFFITH�S STORY OF MAD MONKTON""; ""BROTHER MORGAN�S STORY OF THE DEAD HAND""; ""BROTHER GRIFFITH�S STORY OF THE BITER BIT""; ""BROTHER OWEN�S STORY OF THE PARSON�S SCRUPLE"" |
| ""BROTHER GRIFFITH�S STORY OF A PLOT IN PRIVATE LIFE""""BROTHER MORGAN�S STORY OF FAUNTLEROY""; ""BROTHER OWEN�S STORY OF ANNE RODWAY""; ""Copyright"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A trio of elderly bachelors plays Cupid in this ingeniously crafted novel by one of the 19th-century's finest storytellers A widowed lawyer named Griffith has been appointed legal guardian of Jessie, a lively young woman. In order for Jessie to claim her inheritance, her late father's will stipulates that she must spend 6 weeks with Griffith each year. Consequently, Jessie travels to a remote part of Wales to the castle where the lawyer and his 2 brothers reside. To everyone's surprise and delight, Jessie and the 3 men get along splendidly. Hoping that she will stay to meet Griffith's son, who |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The queen of hearts |
| ISBN: | 1-5040-2115-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460844103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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