Аудиокнига: The Princess Passes
- Download 01 – Woman Disposes audio
- Download 02 – Mercedes to the Rescue audio
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- Download 04 – Pots, Kettles, and Other Things audio
- Download 05 – In Search of a Mule audio
- Download 06 – The Wings of the Wind audio
- Download 07 – At Last! audio
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- Download 09 – The Brat audio
- Download 10 – The Scraping of Acquaintance audio
- Download 11 – A Shadow of Night audio
- Download 12 – The Princess audio
- Download 13 – Afternoon Calls audio
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- Download 15 – Enter the Contessa audio
- Download 16 – A Man from the Dark audio
- Download 17 – A Little Game of Flirtation audio
- Download 18 – Rank Tyranny audio
- Download 19 – The Little Rift Within the Lute audio
- Download 20 – The Great Paolo audio
- Download 21 – The Challenge audio
- Download 22 – An American Custom audio
- Download 23 – There Is No Such Girl audio
- Download 24 – The Revenge of the Mountain audio
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- Download 26 – The Vanishing of the Prince audio
- Download 27 – The Strange Mushroom audio
- Download 28 – The World Without the Boy audio
- Download 29 – The Fairy Prince’s Ring audio
- Download 30 – The Day of Suspense audio
- Download 31 – The Boy’s Sister audio
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An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy’s richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only loves her money, so she does what anyone might do: she bolts for Europe, dons male attire and sets out on a walking tour of the Alps, passing as a teenage boy. Though professing hatred of all men, she soon falls in with a just-jilted English lord, aptly named Monty Lane, who is attempting to walk off a broken heart of his own. The Princess Passes presents the ups and downs of their alpine relationship through the unpenetrating eyes of Lord Lane. Why, he wonders, is he thus drawn to this beautiful youth? And has the boy a sister?
Co-author Alice Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, New York, mentions in her memoirs that she sailed for Europe after a boyfriend tried to shoot her. In London she met literary editor Charles Williamson and began writing for the story magazines of media mogul Lord Northcliffe. At one point she found herself scribbling six serials simultaneously, on the income from which she and Williamson married. She later spun some of her husband’s detailed descriptive notes made during their motor-trips abroad into a string of bestselling novels involving automobiling, then a novelty.
The central romantic action of The Princess Passes recalls comic situations of Shakespeare’s cross-dressing heroines and is bookended by automobile-themed sequences as the narrator and friends (hero & heroine of the Williamsons’ first novel, The Lightning Conductor) motor south through the magnificent, peaceful mountain passes of pre-World War I Europe.
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