aristocracy (social class)

Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.

An unabridged republication of the late nineteenth-century Swedish play about a young aristocrat who seduces her father's valet.

A 1934 satirization of a segment of English society in which all the characters have money but few other qualities to recommend them.

A social history of Regency England that profiles the era's politics, clothing, traditions, and courtesans.

A serving girl, disappointed that her childhood friend is becoming a copy of his proud and unforgiving father, the Duke, helps him to see that the unicorn sought by the Duke's hunting party is too precious to kill.

When sixteen-year-old Lady Victoria is discovered to have magic powers, she is banished to a reform school where she falls in with rebellious students who have pledged to protect England from conquest. Using her full powers, Victoria and the others are led into a dangerous and challenging world.

A social history of Victorian England, focusing on life in the upper echelons of society during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).

After her father breaks up her engagement to the unscrupulous Sir Geoffrey Blandon, Lady Rose Summer attends a last-chance soiree at Telby Castle in order to find a husband, but when a guest is found dead under mysterious conditions, Rose teams up with investigator Harry Cathcart to solve the murder.