Барбара Картленд
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Die schönen Stanton-Schwestern wurden von ihrem Vater alle als «Venus» bezeichnet, da er besessen war vom alten Griechenland. Sir George Stanton jedoch stirbt ohne ihnen Geld zu hinterlassen und sie beschlieβen, daβ ihr Bruder Nicky unbedingt Oxford abschlieβen muss. Um ihm zu helfen entschlieβt sich Larisa Gouvernante zu werden. Die einzige Stellung, die ihr angeboten wird, ist jedoch in Frankreich. Im Zug auf dem Weg dorthin, trifft sie eine französische Schneiderin, die sie gegen den Vater...
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For beautiful young Ivana her stepfather Keith Waring is no replacement for her much-missed father, the Honourable Hugo Sherard, who was killed in Spain fighting against Napoleon Bonaparte. Her stepfather is a spendthrift and he has gambled away virtually everything the family owns. Ivana's hatred for her stepfather is doubled when, to her utter horror, she overhears him offering her as a 'kept woman' to the equally despised Lord Hanford for over five thousand pounds! Ivana...
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All alone and penniless after the unexpected death of her much-loved father, the lovely but innocent Minella Clinton-Wood is desperate. But who can she turn to? Her Aunt Esther has made her reluctance clear, describing the idea of Minella living with her as 'a burden'. But then she finds a letter to her father from her slightly older friend, Connie, the local Parson's attractive daughter, thanking him for some mysterious kindness. "Someday perhaps I will be able to do...
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Left penniless and alone after her parents' sudden deaths, beautiful young Alina Langley is desperate to earn some money to pay off their debts when, quite out of the blue, her friend the glamorous Denise Sedgewick, arrives at her home from London in a smart carriage. Now a famous Society beauty she has come to ask Alina for help. The man Denise loves has gone to Rome, upset after Denise deliberately made him jealous at a party and Denise is desperate to follow him and win him back. Her...
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Beautiful young Roxana Barclay cannot bear to see her wealthy widowed mother, Lady Barclay, marry a raffish fortune-seeker five years her junior. And so she flees to join her Dutch aunt and uncle, who are Missionaries, on their voyage to Bali in the East Indies. Matters are complicated further when Roxana discovers en route that her aunt is with child. Tragically her aunt dies of a fever after the difficult birth of her son, Karel, and then her grief-stricken uncle is found dead too, struck...
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Für die junge Comtesse Lynetta de Marigny beginnt nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern ein entbehrungsreiches und gefahrvolles Leben. Auf der Flucht vor der Revolution lebt sie wie eine Gefangene in ihrem Schloß bei Paris. Als der Earl of Charncliffe eines Tages dort erscheint, bietet sich Lynetta ein unerwarteter Auswegaus ihrem trostlosen Schicksal…
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Thea, Princesa de Kostas, no estaba dispuesta a casarse por conveniencias de Estado con el anciano Rey Otho, Monarca de un país vecino y a quien su Padre pretendía imponerle. Para evitarlo, la Princesa decidió huir del Palacio y cabalgando llega a un sorprendente lugar… Ignoraba que al decidir quedarse en ese lugar, iba al encuentro de su destino y entre la realidad y el ensueño viviría una aventura que jamás podría olvidar. Todo esto y más es relatado en esta romántica novela de Barbara...
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O reverendo Aaron Galvine abandonou luxo e riqueza e, com sua filha Bianca, se dedicou à ajuda e conversão de humildes camponeses e homens fora-da-lei. Pobremente vestidos, alimentando-se mal, dormindo ao relento ou em precários celeiros, pai e filha começaram a sofrer as agruras da miséria. Foi nessa condição de penúria que o duque de Kingswood encontrou Bianca e seu agonizante pai. Condoído, levou a moca e o pastor para seu castelo. Bianca achava que o duque era um anjo vindo do céu… Mas logo...
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Als Durstan Hayles Augen Lorinda das erste Mal erblicken, glitzerten ihre Augen vor wilder Freude. Auf einem schwarzen Pferd ritt sie durch den Ballsaal und erschien als Lady Godiva verkleidet bis auf ihr rotgoldenes Haar fast nackt. Erzürnt von ihrem Verhalten wettet Durstan darauf, daß er diese unvorhersehbare Schönheit bezähmen kann. Aber er muß feststellen, wie stur Lorinda selbst gefangen von der Gier und Gefühllosigkeit ihres Vaters ist. Wie Lorinda am Ende Durstans Leben rettet und ihre...
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El Marqués de Anglestone encontró la manera de escapar del enredo en el que quería envolverlo Lady Hester, quien pretendía hacer creer a todos que el niño que iba a tener era de él… algo totalmente falso. La forma de escapar consistía en aceptar una apuesta en la que el Marqués se comprometía a entrar a la Meca. Como viajó a Egipto y posteriormente a un oscuro puerto de Arabia Saudita, guiado por un jovencito llamado Alí y como descubrió el noble inglés el secreto que rodeaba al joven árabe, es...
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Arriving alone and unannounced at her Aunt Lily's Paris home, the innocent young beauty Gardenia is overwhelmed by a whirl of glamourous parties, exotic food and endless champagne. Her aunt, the imposing Duchesse de Mabillon, is it seems a well-known and popular Society hostess ¬who counts Lords and Comtes among her many friends. Indeed, already at her wits' end after the death of her mother, Gardenia is so shocked by the immediate and over-insistent attentions of a drunken...
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Armand, Viscount Sherringham, Sohn des englischen Premiers, reist unter falschem Namen nach Frankreich, um die Pläne Napoleons für eine Invasion in England auszuspionieren. Auf dem Weg nach Paris lernt er die schöne Comtesse Rêve de Valmont kennen. Für beide ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Rêve aber ist bereits dem Comte Gilles de Durieux versprochen; Napoleon selbst drängt auf eine baldige Hochzeit. Im Garten des Châteaus Valmont wird Armand bei einem Duell am Kopf schwer verwundet. Rêve,...
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Odella Waynes Schönheit ist unberührt von der Welt, aber sie erkennt das Böse wenn sie in seiner Nähe ist. Bei einem Zirkusbesuch erkennt sie, dass die Wahrsagerin eine Spionin der Franzosen im Kampf Napoleons gegen die Engländer ist! Der Marquis von Midhurst erhält diese Neuigkeiten von Odella mit Dankbarkeit – und hat eine gefährliche Bitte für sie: ein geplantes Attentat auf den Prinzregenten zu vereiteln, so wie nur sie es kann. Odella ist verzaubert von dem attraktiven Marquis, ein wahrer...
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Golden-haired young beauty Anona adores her father, the East India Company seafarer Captain Guy Ranson. So she is shocked to the core when he comes home to confess that far from being the successful shipowner she thought he was, he is a pirate, boarding cargo ships and threatening the crew and cargo unless they paid him a ransom. He describes himself as a 'highwayman on a ship'. Fearing that he has been identified and may face the gallows, the Captain is determined that his beloved...
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Rich, powerful and handsome, the Duke of Melyncourt is journeying to Paris on a secret mission for the British Prime Minister when he discovers that a bewitchingly beautiful flame-haired girl has stowed away in his carriage. Amé, as she is a called, has run away from the Convent where she is a novice and to which her unknown mother had entrusted her as a baby in arms. It transpires that she fled to enjoy a last taste of freedom after for some reason the sinister Cardinal de Rohan insisted...
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Running away from the school that she hates, headstrong and rebellious, beautiful young Petrina Lyndon clambers over a wall into a country road, flinging her bag over before her and narrowly missing a dashingly handsome young Earl, to whom she complains about the 'horrible, beastly' Guardian who placed her at the school and how he never listens to her. She is even more shocked when the Earl reveals that he himself is actually her Guardian, the Earl of Staverton. And although he is...
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Pretty young Kelda Lawrence arrived at Mrs. Gladwin's Seminary for Young Ladies when she was fifteen, coming from the orphanage where she was sent for three years after her father and mother were tragically killed in an earthquake travelling in Turkey. At the Seminary she makes a firm friend in the beautiful Yvette de Villon who, although also an orphan, is from a wealthy French extended family. One day Yvette comes to Kelda feeling tearful and distraught because she has been summoned to...
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As a cousin of Queen Victoria, the beautiful Princess Marigold is obliged to yield to the Queen's wishes when it comes to marriage – and the Monarch is most reluctant to allow her to marry the man she loves, Prince Holden of Allenberg, because she views his tiny European Principality as insignificant and uninfluential. So, although the Queen assents to their engagement, she puts obstacles in the way of their marriage in the hope that Princess Marigold will fall out of love with Prince...
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Desde sempre que a bela Lucretia Hedley, adorara a propriedade Merlyncourt e o seu belo e jovem senhor, o Marquês de Merlyncourt. Ele era o solteiro mais cobiçado de toda a Inglaterra e agora, de repente com apenas 18 anos, ela se tornaria sua esposa e amante, pois aquele casamento tinha sido necessário para salvar as propriedades da família do Marques.! Lucretia sabia o quanto ele estava costumado às mais sofisticadas beldades da corte. Poderia ela com a sua juventude conquistar o amor do...
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Returning to his family estate after a long absence in India serving under the much-loved and now-deceased Viceroy, Michael, the handsome Earl of Rayburne, is appalled to find that his estate and the local village have gone to rack and ruin. It seems that his uncle to whom he had entrusted them has embezzled everything that the Earl owns, including the contents of Rayburne Castle and has decamped with his loot to America. Penniless and unable to pay the estate's workers and pensioners,...
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