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"Quisante" from Anthony Hope. English novelist and playwright (1863-1933)."

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.

First published in 1900.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 - 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Quisant by Anthony Hope

Quisant is one of the greatest works by the Anthony Hope.Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 - 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels.

A shrunken sallow old lady, dressed in rusty ill-shaped black and adorned with an evidently false 'front' of fair hair, sat in a tiny flat whose windows overlooked Hyde Park from south to north. She was listening to a tall loose-built dark young man who walked restlessly about... Read Full Overview

Alexander Quisant becomes a power in the house of commons and a ruler in tha trealm of finance known in London as "the city," all by the grace of a ready tongue, an adjustable conscience, and the stupidity of his fellow men. Lady May marries him knowing that he is uncouth and... Read Full Overview

A shrunken sallow old lady, dressed in rusty ill-shaped black and adorned with an evidently false 'front' of fair hair, sat in a tiny flat whose windows overlooked Hyde Park from south to north. She was listening to a tall loose-built dark young man who walked restlessly about... Read Full Overview