aristocracy

An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.

A tale loosely inspired by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville is set in the early nineteenth century and follows an unlikely friendship between a survivor of the French Revolution and an itinerant English engraver's son.

American heiress Cora Cash travels to Europe in the late nineteenth century to find a titled husband and succeeds when she falls in love with and marries Ivo, the Duke of Wareham, but while her money guaranteed her the best the world had to offer in the United States, Cora finds herself struggling to understand British society and customs, and unsure whether her husband really loves her or married her just for her fabulous wealth.

Margaretha hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, will be her one true love, but when an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook, Margaretha is drawn into a plot, not knowing who is telling the truth.

An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.

Liza Campbell recounts her childhood growing up in renowned Cawdor Castle, the setting for Shakespeare's "Macbeth", revealing how the fairytale setting hid a dark history of violence and madness that shaped Liza and her brothers and sisters throughout their lives.

Penelope Deveraux is sent to India to let the scandal surrounding her hasty marriage die down and is plunged into a strange world of intrigue and danger where the only person Penelope can trust is not her husband, but the dashing Alex Reid.

Chekhov's last play, written in 1904, tells the story of an aristocratic Russian family that struggles to maintain their status in a changing world as they are faced with the prospect of selling the family estate to a land developer in order to pay off their debts.

Explores how the Bush family used all its resources to create a political dynasty that has used the White House to further its family and ideological agenda, revealing how four generations of the family have ascended the ladder of national power since World War I.