false 3419681 8 <B>Building on his "superb" (<I>Washington Post</I>) debut, <I>The Meaning of Night</I>, Michael Cox returns to a murderous nineteenth-century England.</B><BR><BR>ike its "beguiling" and "intelligent" (<I>New York Times Book Review</I>) predecessor, <I>The Glass of Time</I> is a page-turning period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present. In the autumn of 1876, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to become a lady's maid to the twenty-sixth Baroness Tansor. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l'Orme, to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanza's own life is bound up. At Evenwood she meets Lady Tansor's two dashing sons, Perseus and Randolph, and finds herself enmeshed in a complicated web of seduction, intrigue, deceit, betrayal, and murder. Few writers are as gifted at evoking the sensibility of the nineteenth century as Michael Cox, who has made the world of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins his own. 3460149 13 10 2008 The Glass of Time: A Novel total:238|5:53|4:93|3:78|2:10|1:4| 238 895 508 71 3 3 false false Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 21:22:07 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 12:54:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 16 20:08:45 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 19:08:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 11 15:35:10 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 15:36:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 06:47:26 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 06:55:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 19:08:07 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 19:59:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 12:26:10 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 18:05:57 -0700 2009 Rebecca,...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 08:59:10 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 05:23:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 13:39:54 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 17:03:30 -0800 2008
The heroine is ke...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 26 07:57:41 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 12:28:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 16:22:52 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 16:22:52 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 14:16:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 13:21:51 -0700 2009 The Meaning of Night, largely because this book lent itself more effectively to grappling with the morality of Edward's actions. I also thought that the shift from a male-dominated narrative to one focused primarily on - and narrated by - wome...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 00:12:14 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 29 22:58:07 -0800 2009 1 The Glass of Time: The Secret Life of Miss Esperanza Gorst, Narrated by Herself. Author Michael Cox.

A history of mystery and secrets, “The Glass of Time” is fluid and consistently kept in its own time period of the 19th century. It is also a tragic love story with catastrophic reve...more...]]> 3 0 true true Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 13:24:55 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 08:53:21 -0700 2008 I really liked The Meaning of Night (the first book in this series), and thought in the first 100 pages or so of The Glass of Time that I would actually like it better than the first. I found The Glass of Time really sucked me in early, whereas when I read The Meaning of Night ...more...]]> 5 0 false true Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 20:17:44 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 20:36:23 -0700 2009 I loved the setting, time peri...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 17:47:33 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 17:47:33 -0800 2008
England, 1876. Eperanza is a lady's maid to a baroness, but Esperanza is more than she seems. The author of this page-turner allowed me to figure out enough of the mystery that I felt smart, but kept enough mystery so I was intrigued to the end. A great book, just what I needed...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jul 18 07:53:27 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 07:54:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 14:30:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:17:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 14:30:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:48:05 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:53:02 -0800 2009 1 Plot twists and turns keep up the interest and the novel changes dramatically as it reaches its climax. Some predictable parts and ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 06:14:08 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 06:14:08 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 10 17:04:04 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 19:42:49 -0800 2009 The Meaning of Night , this was a good Victorian mystery, but didn't quite measure up to the first book. I also felt like a lot of the "mysteries" of the plot became obvious long before they were officially revealed, which kind of ruined the suspense. ]]>