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The Devil's Wind
Patricia Wentworth
其他書名
A Historical Novel
出版Good Press, 2023-12-16
主題Fiction / Alternative HistoryFiction / Romance / Historical / 20th Century
ISBNEAN:8596547780267
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W0nmEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"The Devil's Wind" is a historical novel set during the Indian rebellion of 1857 and delves into an exciting and gripping yarn of adventure, betrayal and political intrigue! Excerpt: "In the year 1854 Mrs.Lauriston's London drawing-room was as ugly as contemporary taste could make it. This is saying much, but not too much. The June sunshine slanted in, and rested with unsparing candour upon a cabbage-coloured carpet patterned with monstrous magenta blooms of uncertain family. Gloomy oil-paintings in gorgeous, fog-dimmed frames covered the greater part of the wall space. Helen Wilmot had never been able to decide whether she thought the wall-paper uglier than the portraits, or the portraits more frightful than the wall-paper..."