D.H. Lawrence4.0 Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Ciccio, a sensual Italian who immediately captures Alvina’s attention. Fleeing with him to Naples, she leaves her safe world behind and enters one of sexual awakening, desire, and fleeting freedom.
George Macaulay Trevelyan0.0 It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second Earl Grey to be left half finished. And that induced the Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr. George Trevelyan.
