The King's general

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Daphne Du Maurier: The King's general (1947, The Sun dial press)

371 pages

English language

Published May 7, 1947 by The Sun dial press.

OCLC Number:
1493002

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As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors

In this sweeping, bittersweet saga, spellbinding author Daphne du Maurier recreates a most memorable and true love story. Honor Harris was glorious and vivacious. Sir Richard Grenville was a dashing colonel and a knight. They meet on the evening of her eighteenth birthday at the Duke of Buckingham's great ball and fall deeply in love.

Soon afterward tragedy strikes and they are separated by betrayal and war. Decades later, an undaunted Sir Richard, now a general serving King Charles I, finds her. Finally they can share their passion in the ruins of a great estate on the storm-tossed Cornish coast one last time before being torn apart, never to embrace again.

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Subjects

  • Grenville, Richard, Sir, 1600-1658 -- Fiction
  • Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction