The Passing Bells: The First New York Times Bestselling British Family Saga of Servants and Gentry in WWI (Greville Family) - Softcover

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Rock, Phillip

 
9780062229311: The Passing Bells: The First New York Times Bestselling British Family Saga of Servants and Gentry in WWI (Greville Family)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0062229311 ISBN 13: 9780062229311
Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2012

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Before Downton Abbey, there was Abingdon Pryory, the elegant country home of the Grevilles—a titled English family who, along with their servants, see their world turned upside down when England goes to war. Once their well-kept lawns and whirling social seasons give way to the horrors of World War I, no one, upstairs or downstairs, is left untouched. For fans of sweeping historical fiction, the reissue of Phillip Rock's New York Times bestseller The Passing Bells is a breathtaking family saga not to be missed.

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Born in Hollywood, California, Phillip Rock lived in England with his family until the blitz of 1940. He spent his adult years in Los Angeles and published three novels before the Passing Bells series: Flickers, The Dead in Guanajuato, and The Extraordinary Seaman. He died in 2004.

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The guns of August are rumbling throughout Europe in the summer of 1914, but war has not yet touched Abingdon Pryory. Here, at the grand home of the Greville family, the parties, dances, and romances play on. Alexandra Greville embarks on her debutante season while brother Charles remains hopelessly in love with the beautiful, untitled Lydia Foxe, knowing that his father, the Earl of Stanmore, will never approve of the match. Downstairs the new servant, Ivy, struggles to adjust to the routines of the well-oiled household staff, as the arrival of American cousin Martin Rilke, a Chicago newspaperman, causes a stir.

But, ultimately, the Great War will not be denied, as what begins for the high-bred Grevilles as a glorious adventure soon takes its toll—shattering the household's tranquillity, crumbling class barriers, and bringing its myriad horrors home.

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Verlag
William Morrow Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062229311
ISBN 13 
9780062229311
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Anzahl der Seiten
544
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