Browse by category
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Blues Ser.
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounte ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Blues Ser.
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything--an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. ...Show more
1 - 2 of 2