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Born into the wealthiest family on the island of Herakleion, Julian Davenant is expected to lead a life of fortune and ease. Torn between his heritage, his beautiful lover, and his revolutionary political beliefs, Julian is a tragic, heroic, and ultimately human figure. Inspired by her torturous affair with Violet Keppel, Challenge is a novel by Vita Sackville-West.

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As his elderly relative lay dying, insurance salesman Mr. Chase stands in the wings, waiting to inherit the manor of the soon to be deceased. Yet once in possession, Chase deems the home entirely impractical and a burden whose only useful purpose is to be sold for capital. For him, the house holds none of the charm that had so beguiled its former mistress. But as the wheels are set in motion for the sale, an inexplicable change begins to take ...

CHALLENGE was Vita Sackville-West's second novel. It was ready to go to print in 1920, but the author suddenly changed her mind. This was not because she lacked confidence in her work, but because of the scandal it would have caused. CHALLENGE was published in the USA in 1923 but remained unpublished and banned in the UK for over fifty years.Vita's love affair with Violet Trefusis had reached its peak, and, eloping to France, they decided to a...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Poems of West EastLet us go back together to the hills. Weary am I of palaces and courts, Weary of words disloyal to my thoughts Come, my beloved, let us to the hills.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the...

Excerpt from Knole and the SackvillesThe following sketches of Knole and its owners lay no claim to he either exhaustive or elahorate. I have no erudition, I have only personal familiarity. I hope, therefore, that they may he accepted as fugitive impressions rather than examined as a scholarly contrihution either to history, art, or literature, and that such inaccuracies as may inadvertently have slipped in may not he too severely condemned.Ab...

Excerpt from Orchard and VineyardAll her youth is gone, her beautiful youth outworn, Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her home No longer know her step on the upland tracks forlorn Where she was wont to roam.All her hounds are dead, her beautiful hounds are dead, That paced beside the hoofs of her high and nimble horse, Or streaked in lean pursuit of the tawny hare that ¿ed Out of the yellow gorse.All her lovers have passed, h...

Excerpt from ChallengeAt that moment the man on the stairs looked up, and his eyes met those of the woman leaning on the balustrade above.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whil...

Excerpt from The Heir: A Love StoryMiss chase lay on her immense red silk four-poster that reached as high as the ceiling. Her face was covered over by a sheet, but as she had a high, aristocratic nose, it raised the sheet into a ridge, ending in a point. Her hands could also be distinguished beneath the sheet, folded across her chest like the hands of an effigy and her feet, tight together like the feet of an effigy, raised the sheet into two...

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Excerpt from Heritage Yet for one week in those two years Malory and I were linked by the thread of a story he told me, sitting out under a clump of stone pines overlooking the village. It linked us, indeed, not for that week alone, but, though interruptedly and at long intervals, for many years out of our lives. Neither of us foresaw at the time the far-reaching sequel of his con fidences. He, when he told me the story, thought that he was t...

Excerpt from The Dragon in Shallow Waters All these things, the chimneys and the girders, were crushingly larger than the men who laboured amongst them. The men seemed of pigmy size as they pushed their hand-trucks along the ¿oor of the big gallery. They pushed them down the narrow passage-ways left between the vats. The gallery was full of vats, set in pairs down the whole length of the building, square vats twenty feet each way, as large an...

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