The fate of Harry Tristram’s inheritance hangs on a technicality of the calendar, and the outcome is not in Harry’s favor. All he wants is to own the House of Blent, but unless he can convince himself to marry someone he does not love, Harry may have to relinquish his estate to his cousin Cecily. Readers will relish the story’s ingenious denouement and Hope’s precise character study.
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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), who published under the name Anthony Hope, was a prolific English novelist and playwright. His best-known works are the swashbuckling adventures Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau (1898). Knighted in 1918 for his wartime service with the Ministry of Information, his autobiography Memories and Notes appeared in 1927.