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Love at the End of the Century: Thorns and Roses of the Duchess

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Love at the End of the Century: Thorns and Roses of the Duchess
14.99 €
This book is about love - for life, for beauty, love between a man and a woman. About where dreams lead, and about the fact that beauty, intelligence and wealth do not guarantee serene happiness. About the human "masquerade ball" of vanity and pride and that the rich also cry. About castles and palaces, "skeletons in the closet" and the Beautiful Era with its cult of gourmandism and aesthetics.

Marry the Duke of Marlborough was the most cherished dream of Gladys Deacon - a beautiful American with an antique profile and enchanting blue eyes, driving mad the great and famous. To her goal she walked for three decades, but the tantalizing happiness turned out to be a mirage. Having turned into a recluse, she disappeared from the secular chronicles for many years, and only sphinxes with her face in the palace park Blenheim kept family secrets ...
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