A Factory of Cunning
by Stockley, Philippa
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0151011729
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011728
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Synopsis
Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley's American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox. On the run from a scandalous French past, she takes on a new identity, determined to rehabilitate herself. To do so she must pit her formidable skills for revenge against Earl Much, a British aristocrat with no less notorious a past and easily her match in sinfulness and intrigue. Between these two swirls a story featuring venal lords, wronged maidens, and reprobate clergymen, transporting readers from bawdy houses to country estates-places where the pleasures of the flesh are both high comedy and serious business. A Factory of Cunning takes readers to the world immortalized in Dangerous Liaisons. And, like Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, the vividly rendered setting and characters give the thrill of a fresh discovery.
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- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000003
- Title
- A Factory of Cunning
- Author
- Stockley, Philippa
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 355 p. Audience: General
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151011729
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011728
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 355
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- 18th century; Aristocracy (Social class); Fiction; Historical; History; Revenge; Scandals
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical; Fiction; Scandals;
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