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Overview

Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley's American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox--on the run from a scandalous French past--who takes a new identity, determined to reinvent herself. She must pit her formidable skills for revenge against Earl Much, a British aristocrat with no less notorious a past and easily her match in sinfulness and intrigue. Between these two swirls a story featuring venal lords, wronged maidens, and reprobate clergymen, transporting readers from bawdy houses to country estates--places where the pleasures of the flesh are both high comedy and serious business. A Factory of Cunning takes readers to the world immortal­ized in Dangerous Liaisons. And, like Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, the vividly rendered setting and characters give the thrill of a fresh discovery.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780156030670
  • ISBN-10: 0156030675
  • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
  • Publish Date: September 2006
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.28 x 0.86 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
  • Page Count: 368

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