Elly Robin : Bird in a Gilded Cage (The Ordeals of Elly Robin)

By P.D. Quaver

While studying piano with a famous Italian virtuoso, fifteen-year old prodigy Elly Robin at first considers the patronage of the immensely wealthy LaSalle family a stroke of good fortune. But her social ineptness makes her a laughing stock to the LaSalle children. And Elly soon realizes the ostensibly respectable family harbors terrible secrets. Elly awakens the LaSalle's sheltered daughter Willie to the awful knowledge that the source of her family's fabulous wealth is the virtual enslavement of thousands of impoverished immigrants. But the vehemence with which Willie turns against her family gets her mixed up in a murderous anarchist plot that imperils both their lives. With cameo appearances by such luminaries as Jack London, Emma Goldman, and the young Gloria Swanson, this volume of Elly's adventures paints a compelling portrait of a bustling young city, riven by racial and economic inequality, and poised on the brink of the First World War. Volume Five of P.D. Quaver's extraordinary multi-volume saga, THE ORDEALS OF ELLY ROBIN

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B098RYTZXF
• ISBN13: 9798526346214
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 486 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.1" x 5.3"