The flirtatious relationship between bachelor Sam Carter and the vivacious beauty Dorothea “Dolly” Foster takes them from Monte Carlo to London. When Dolly marries a wealthy lord, Sam feigns indifference—but they both know the truth. Enormously popular when published, this novel is an insightful look into the social mores of the fashionable late-Victorian scene.
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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.