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Phantom Fortune, a Novel
This work intertwines themes of societal expectation, personal ambition, and romantic intrigue, centering around the character Lady Maulevrier, who epitomizes ambition and status in English society.
"Phantom Fortune" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. This work intertwines themes of societal expectation, personal ambition, and romantic intrigue, centering around the character Lady Maulevrier, who epitomizes ambition and status in English society.
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People dined earlier forty years ago than they do now. Even that salt of the earth, the elect of society, represented by that little great world which lies between the narrow circle bounded by Bryanstone Square on the north and by Birdcage Walk on the south, did not consider seven o'clock too early an hour for a dinner party which was to be followed by routs, drums, concerts, conversazione, as the case might be. It was seven o'clock on a lovely June evening, and the Park was already deserted, and carriages were rolling swiftly along all the Westend squares, carrying rank, fashion, wealth, and beauty, political influence, and intellectual power, to the particular circle in which each was destined to illumine upon that particular evening.
Stateliest among London squares, Grosvenor—in some wise a wonder to the universe as newly lighted with gas—grave Grosvenor, with its heavy old Georgian houses and pompous porticoes, sparkled and shone, not alone with the novel splendour of gas, but with the light of many wax candles, clustering flower-like in silver branches and girandoles, multiplying their flame in numerous mirrors; and of all the houses in that stately square none had a more imposing aspect than Lord Denyer's dark red brick mansion, with stone dressings, and the massive grandeur of an Egyptian mausoleum.
Contents
- 01Chapter I.
- 02Chapter II.
- 03Chapter III.
- 04Chapter IV.
- 05Chapter V.
- 06Chapter VI.
- 07Chapter VII.
- 08Chapter VIII.
- 09Chapter IX.
- 10Chapter X.
- 11Chapter XI.
- 12Chapter XII.
- 13Chapter XIII.
- 14Chapter XIV.
- 15Chapter XV.
- 16Chapter XVI.
- 17Chapter XVII.
- 18Chapter XVIII.
- 19Chapter XIX.
- 20Chapter XX.
- 21Chapter XXI.
- 22Chapter XXII.
- 23Chapter XXIII.
- 24Chapter XXIV.
- 25Chapter XXV.
- 26Chapter XXVI.
- 27Chapter XXVII.
- 28Chapter XXVIII.
- 29Chapter XXIX.
- 30Chapter XXX.
- 31Chapter XXXI.
- 32Chapter XXXII.
- 33Chapter XXXIII.
- 34Chapter XXXIV.
- 35Chapter XXXV.
- 36Chapter XXXVI.
- 37Chapter XXXVII.
- 38Chapter XXXVIII.
- 39Chapter XXXIX.
- 40Chapter XL.
- 41Chapter XLI.
- 42Chapter XLII.
- 43Chapter XLIII.
- 44Chapter XLIV.
- 45Chapter XLV.
- 46Chapter XLVI.
- 47The End.
About this edition
- Author
- M. E. Braddon
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 589 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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