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Knock Four Times
This, unlike most of Margaret Irwin's books, is not an historical novel. It is a peep-show at recent times, so fantastically gay that this, our London, appears as the iridescent scene of a pantomime or holiday charade. What happened behind the door at which one had to knock four times? Many wildly incongruous happenings, but chiefly an attack on other doors, the 'everlasting doors' of Prince's Gate, Queen's Gate, Emperor's Gate, to make them open wide to the rash young adventurer Dicky who had once gatecrashed them, but was resolved to 'spurn Kensington, march on Mayfair,' and conquer both the New World and the Old. How Dicky fought his way to fortune, and how Celia fought hers to freedom from behind the Gates of Kensington, by knocking four times on Dicky's door, is told in this story, which dances along as irresponsibly as a soap bubble against its brilliantly realized background, shading from the raffish to the respectable. For all its laughter and absurd situations, it is marked with the humorous sympathy and integrity that have distinguished all Margaret Irwin's work.
None So Pretty
None So Pretty describes, with a sensibility and conviction unusual in historical fiction, the life of a young girl brought up in a large, aristocratic, but impecunious family, and married off at an early age to a neighbouring squire who nightly drinks himself under the table. It is not long before the young wife discovers that her sottish husband keeps a mistress at his lodge gates, and that he does not propose to consummate his marriage. Relief from a life of intolerable loneliness comes in the form of a young cavalier who stumbles into her bedroom one night after a hearty carouse downstairs, and the acquaintance thus started swiftly ripens into a deeper affection. To disclose the final sequence of events in this curious drama would be to spoil the story for a prospective reader; one must be content to conclude that by commending Miss Irwin's fascinatingly life-like and original characters, and her gift for creating vivid, unforgettable mental pictures.
The Stranger Prince
Recounts the story of Rupert of the Rhine, nephew of King Charles I and brilliant soldier of the English Civil War, called the "Devil Prince," and who fell victim to an impossible love
Monsieur Seeks a Wife (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Margaret Irwin was a prolific and popular author of the mid-20th century. Set in a mythical forest, and presented as a fractured memoirs, 'Monsieur Seeks a Wife' is one of her most intriguing tales. Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Bride
The story of the romance between the Marquis of Montrose, the soldier-poet who fought so magnificently for Charles I, and the enchanting, wayward Princess Louise, sister of Rupert of the Rhine.
Royal Flush
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The Galliard
The young and trusting Scottish Queen, Mary Stewart, is sailing home to her kingdom for the first time since she was spirited away in great danger from the English at five years old. Religious divides threaten to tear the nation apart and across the border England's Queen Elizabeth, Mary's cousin, watches this new threat to her throne.
My Little House Sewing Book
Easy-to-follow instructions show beginning sewers how to make eight projects--including a sunbonnet, an embroidery sampler, and a nine-patch quilt block--inspired by the stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
YOUNG BESS
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