When Sir Edward Leithen leaves London to spend Whitsuntide as a guest of Lady Flambard, he has no idea of the extraordinary sequence of events about to...
Alongside portraits of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Virgil, and Sir Walter Scott, to name but four, this anthology includes lyrical descriptions of landscapes...
When Anthony Lammas, a young professor, hears that one of his former students is in grave danger, he sets out to try and save him. On his journey, he...