Sidney L. Blanchard's Riddles of Love is a delightful Victorian novel of manners that blends romance with sparkling social satire in a deft, witty style that will remind readers of Jane Austen and Charles Lamb.

The story follows the fortunes of May Pemberton as she passes from Shuttleton, an ugly little manufacturing town, to a triumphant debut on the London stage. Repelled by the aggressive compliments paid to her by her admirers, May abandons her career to accompany her father to colonial India. Her retirement from theatrical fame, which happens to coincide with a colonial rebellion, is anything but placid. The interlocking love triangles of Blanchard's story are as multifaceted as the lost diamond necklace that sets the plot in motion.

This new edition, the first in 142 years, reprints the original illustrations of Adelaide Claxton and is supplemented with endnotes and an Anglo-Indian glossary.

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Title: The Ganges and the Seine: scenes on the banks of both.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Blanchard, Sidney Laman; 1862. 2 vol.; 8 . T 36007

Title: The Ganges and the Seine: scenes on the banks of both.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Blanchard, Sidney Laman; 1862. 2 vol.; 8 . T 36007