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Description Robert Lewis Stevenson continues the story of David Balfour, starting directly where Kidnapped left off. Compared to Kidnapped, Catriona is much more of a comedy of manners, politics, and romance than a simple action-adventure story, but it still has several of Stevensonโs trademark escapades, imprisonments, and daring escapes. The title character David Balfour attempts to navigate, to his own peril, his apparent role in the Appin murder, the subsequent trial of James of the Glens,
Description The young venetian noble Bassanio seeks to woo the beautiful heiress Portia of Belmont. He turns to his friend, a merchant named Antonio, who agrees to help him financially. They go to a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who agrees to lend the moneyโbut because of their mutual animosity, Shylock demands โA pound of fleshโ from Antonio as collateral. Bassanio succeeds in winning Portiaโs hand. Meanwhile, Antonioโs ships are reported lost at sea, and he defaults on the loan. Bassanio
Description Soon after the widowed Lilia Herriton arrives at the dusty Tuscan town of Monteriano with her friend Caroline Abbott, she falls in love with Gino Carella, a handsomeโand youngerโman. When her overbearing in-laws hear of the engagement, they panic, believing a marriage like that would dishonor their family and the memory of Liliaโs late husband and their child. Liliaโs brother-in-law, Philip Herriton, rushes to Italy to stop the marriage and โrescueโ Lilia from Gino. He soon
Description Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the
Description The Small House at Allington was originally serialized in Cornhill Magazine between July and December 1862. It is the fifth book in Trollopeโs Chronicles of Barsetshire series, being largely set in that fictious county of England. It includes a few of the characters from the earlier books, though largely in very minor roles. It could also be said to be the first of Trollopeโs Palliser series, as it introduces Plantagenet Palliser as the heir to the Duke of Omnium. The major story,