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Cora Cash has grown up in a world in which money unlocks every door. Her coming-out ball promises to be the most opulent of the gilded 1890s, a fitting debut for New York's 'princess'. Yet her fortune cannot buy her the one thing she craves - the freedom to choose her own destiny.For Cora's mother has her heart on a title for her daughter, and in England - where they are bound, to find Cora a husband - impoverished blue bloods are queuing up for introductions to American heiresses. But the aristocracy is a treacherous realm. When Cora loses her heart to a man she barely knows, she soon realises that she is playing a game she does not fully understand - and that her future happiness is the prize.Daisy Goodwin's sparking debut brings the fin de si�cle romance between England and America to exuberant life.
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- Titul
- My last duchess
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Daisy Goodwin
- Rok vydania
- 2010
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Romantika, Historické romány, Ženy, Britská literatúra, Historické romance, 19. storočie, Anglicko
- Prvé vydanie
- 2010
- Pôvodný názov
- My Last Duchess
- Hodnotenie
- 3,4 z 5
- Anotácia
- Cora Cash has grown up in a world in which money unlocks every door. Her coming-out ball promises to be the most opulent of the gilded 1890s, a fitting debut for New York's 'princess'. Yet her fortune cannot buy her the one thing she craves - the freedom to choose her own destiny.For Cora's mother has her heart on a title for her daughter, and in England - where they are bound, to find Cora a husband - impoverished blue bloods are queuing up for introductions to American heiresses. But the aristocracy is a treacherous realm. When Cora loses her heart to a man she barely knows, she soon realises that she is playing a game she does not fully understand - and that her future happiness is the prize.Daisy Goodwin's sparking debut brings the fin de si�cle romance between England and America to exuberant life.