The Place of Honeymoons by Harold MacGrath

Description

The curtain is up and so are the stakes: at the stage door of the great house, in the stalls, and in the private boxes, a whole economy of desire is in attendance. Into this excited atmosphere steps our hero, a young man not yet famous for being anything in particular, who takes the prima donna’s performance far more seriously than protocol allows and draws upon himself attention he cannot politely refuse.

MacGrath, the master of the Edwardian lark, then arranges the collision of the season: a duke whose dignity is porous, a fortune that insists on getting involved, identities that slip out of their owners’ pockets, and the inevitable retreat to the honeymoon ground where couples assemble to declare forever while their own future fidgets in its seat. The plotting is spring-loaded and the tone immaculate, somewhere between farce and fancy, dressed for dinner and built for speed.

Why MacGrath’s comedy still fizzes

• Clean, musical comic timing with characters who know they’re playing a part.
• The love story played against a shimmering, stage-mad background.
• A duke worth his weight in scene-stealing.

About This DodaBooks Edition

All 20 chapters are reset in clean, continuous type with a working index.