Ken Everett

Courtesy and Contempt (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A wealthy man dies and his entire estate goes to son, who promised to take care of the family, but his greedy wife takes him out of generosity, so the widow gets a tiny pension, forcing her to move with three daughters to a cheap country cottage. The family takes a step down in society and faces hardship as they are four women virtually penniless. The sisters with different perspectives on life and interests, keep one another in line and support one another through death, hardship, love, and friendship.
A conflict between marrying for love and marrying for economic reasons. A father driven to exasperation by his ridiculous wife and difficult daughters. None of the five daughters can inherit his estate, so they are pressured into finding security in "good" marriages. One of the daughters struggles with the societal pressures of marriage and resists advances and proposals of a wealthy and arrogant gentleman. She shares her father's distaste for the conventional views of society as to the importance of wealth and rank.Eventually, however, she finds that she does love him, and for that reason, she decides to marry him.
A poor young girl searches for her place in society. Her father is a former naval officer and a heavy drinker, while her mother has married beneath her and is undeniably the black sheep in the family. As a form of charity, yhe girlFanny is taken in to live with her wealthy aunt. At her new home, The girl is raised and lives with her four cousins and is never really considered their social equal. She is often mistreated by her aunt and treated as an inferior by her cousins. She is constantly reminded of her social status and grows up shy and humble, but nevertheless remains true to herself., and must decide whether she places a higher value on priceless morality or the expectations imposed on her by society.
A young woman living on the large estate with her elderly widowed father, is satisfied with her life and sees no need for romance or a marriage for herself, and is described as handsome, clever, and rich with a comfortable home and happy disposition, and is spoiled, snobbish, and yet charming. She delightfully interferes in the relationships of others without taking much notice of her own heart. She is quick to make prejudgments and decisions, and is warned of her high self-confidence and her efforts of having everything her way. But as she evolves from her self-centered ways into a sympathetic woman, well aware of others and her own desires, an is eventually able to notice her mistakes, and it is this revelation that makes her an endearing inspiration.
A story of seventeen-year-old girl's story of maturation into womanhood. She is one of ten children of a country clergyman. She imagines life as living in one of the Gothic novels with which she is excessively fond of reading. She leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of the city, and she experiences her first taste of the fashionable upper class society. Eventually she realizes that real life is not at all like that of a Gothic novel.
The overlooked middle daughter of a vain baronet who is all too conscious of his good looks and rank and spends excessive amounts of money. Her mother, a fine, sensible woman, is long dead, and her elder sister, resembles her father in temperament and delights in the fact that as the eldest daughter she can assume her mother's former position in their rural neighborhood. Portrayed by the plight of young women who could escape the constraints of family life only by marrying, and suggest the foolishness of women who believed they were free and not dependent on the financial and social resources of men.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ken Everett
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005198169
• Artikelnr.: 63754747

Autorenporträt

I'm a 61 year old widower of 6 years who is retired and lives in Des Plaines IL. I'm pretty much a stay at home person (especially during these Covid times). I live with my 2 loyal companions, my 12 year old silky terrier Scottie and my 11 year old American longhair black cat Edy. My passions are reading and cooking. I love writing and this is my second book with a third in the works. My first published book is called The Fermi Paradox which I wrote 15 years ago. I have a website (https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/) that deals primarily in literature, as well as news and info. I also buy and sell textbooks which I like to call textbook arbitrage.

I love books because they provide an escape. They allow me to go somewhere I would never be able to get without them. I read to know that I am not alone. Books provide me with a place to go when I have nowhere else to go.
When you read and see the world through another person's eyes, it is quite breathtaking and overwhelming. Everyone envisages things and perceives things differently and to glimpse another person's perspective, is fascinating (especially if it is a biography or a real true-life story)