The Age of Desire

6 best books like The Age of Desire (Jennie Fields): A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts, At the Edge of Summer, The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio, All This Talk of Love, The Secret History of Costaguana, A French Wedding

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
AuthorTherese Anne Fowler
ISBN1250095476
A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York,

In 1883, the New York Times prints a lengthy rave of Alva Vanderbilt's Fifth Ave. costume ball--a coup for the former Alva Smith, who not long before was destitute, her family's good name useless on its own. Marrying into the newly rich but socially...
At the Edge of Summer
AuthorJessica Brockmole
ISBN0345547896
The acclaimed author of Letters from Skye returns with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war.

Luc Crépet is accustomed to his mother’s bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic château in the French countryside, where...
AuthorAndrea Mays
Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the...
AuthorChristopher Castellani
ISBN1616201703
It’s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she would ever see her parents, her sisters and brothers—everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. She locked those memories away, as if Santa Cecilia stopped...
The Secret History of Costaguana
AuthorJuan Gabriel Vásquez
ISBN1594488037
A bold historical novel from "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature" (Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature).

In the early twentieth century, a struggling Joseph Conrad wrote his great novel Nostromo, about a South American republic he named...
A French Wedding
AuthorHannah Tunnicliffe
ISBN0385541848
A French Wedding is a delicious novel about six college friends reuniting on the coast of Brittany to celebrate one of their own's fortieth birthday. With sumptuous food and plenty of wine, the table is set for tricky romantic entanglements, fiery outbursts, and a range of secrets. Readers who loved...
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