Description:This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Flambards, the Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer, the Right-Hand Man, Going Home, a Pattern of Roses, Flambards Divided, Fly-By-Night. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Flambards is a novel by the English author K. M. Peyton. The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I. The first book, originally published in 1967, tells how the teenage heroine, orphaned heiress Christina Parsons, comes to live at Flambards, the impoverished Essex estate owned by her crippled and tyrannical uncle, William Russell, and his two sons, Mark and Will. Its original sequels were The Edge of the Cloud and Flambards in Summer (both 1969); Flambards Divided (1981) controversially reversed the ending of the original trilogy. Christina Parsons, who has been shunted around the family since she was orphaned at five years old in 1901, is sent to live at Flambards with her mother's half-brother, the crippled Russell. Her Aunt Grace speculates that Russell plans for Christina to marry his son Mark in order to restore Flambards to its former glory using the money that she will inherit on her twenty-first birthday. Mark is as brutish as his father, with a great love for hunting, whereas the younger son William is terrified of horses and aspires to be an aviator. Christina soon finds friendship with an injured William, who challenges her ideas on class boundaries, as well as a love for horses and hunting. William and Christina eventually fall in love and elope at the end of the first book. The Edge of the Cloud, the second novel in the series, continues directly from the end of the first book and follows William and Christina's relationship and his aviation, with a back-drop of up...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1131We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Novels by K. M. Peyton (Study Guide): Flambards, the Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer. To get started finding Novels by K. M. Peyton (Study Guide): Flambards, the Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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26
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Books LLC
Release
2010
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1157165443
Novels by K. M. Peyton (Study Guide): Flambards, the Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer
Description: This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Flambards, the Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer, the Right-Hand Man, Going Home, a Pattern of Roses, Flambards Divided, Fly-By-Night. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Flambards is a novel by the English author K. M. Peyton. The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I. The first book, originally published in 1967, tells how the teenage heroine, orphaned heiress Christina Parsons, comes to live at Flambards, the impoverished Essex estate owned by her crippled and tyrannical uncle, William Russell, and his two sons, Mark and Will. Its original sequels were The Edge of the Cloud and Flambards in Summer (both 1969); Flambards Divided (1981) controversially reversed the ending of the original trilogy. Christina Parsons, who has been shunted around the family since she was orphaned at five years old in 1901, is sent to live at Flambards with her mother's half-brother, the crippled Russell. Her Aunt Grace speculates that Russell plans for Christina to marry his son Mark in order to restore Flambards to its former glory using the money that she will inherit on her twenty-first birthday. Mark is as brutish as his father, with a great love for hunting, whereas the younger son William is terrified of horses and aspires to be an aviator. Christina soon finds friendship with an injured William, who challenges her ideas on class boundaries, as well as a love for horses and hunting. William and Christina eventually fall in love and elope at the end of the first book. The Edge of the Cloud, the second novel in the series, continues directly from the end of the first book and follows William and Christina's relationship and his aviation, with a back-drop of up...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1131We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Novels by K. M. Peyton (Study Guide): Flambards, the Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer. To get started finding Novels by K. M. Peyton (Study Guide): Flambards, the Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer, Pennington's Seventeenth Summer, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.