The Emperor's Candlesticks (Annotated)

The Emperor's Candlesticks is a brisk romance of intrigue, secrecy, and international danger, written in the elegant melodramatic mode of late Victorian popular fiction. Moving through aristocratic drawing rooms, diplomatic corridors, and shadowed European byways, the novel turns ornamental objects into instruments of political fate. Orczy blends espionage, mistaken loyalties, and sentimental tens...