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The maze at Windermere, Gregory Blake Smith

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The maze at Windermere

Gregory Blake Smith

A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest, the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress's diamond necklace, launches an odyssey that braids together three centuries of love and ambition, aspiration and adversity. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; the young writer Henry James, soon to make his mark on the world, turns himself to his craft with harrowing social consequences; an aristocratic British officer during the American Revolution carries on a courtship that leads to murder; and, in Newport's earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl imagines a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited

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