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Uncharted Seas
Upon her father's death, clever young Sandra Duval is summoned by an old family friend and given a job as social secretary to Mrs. Pat Newsome, lady of Seven Chimneys. On her arrival, she meets an old acquaintance who claims to be the long lost son of Mark Hoyt, the former owner of Seven Chimneys and Stone House. Then, on an afternoon walk, she stumbles upon Stone House and handsome, arrogant Nicholas Hoyt, nephew to Mark and heir to his fortune. Suddenly, Sandra is cast into a world of lies and deceit, plagued by Who is the true heir? And, most of all, who will win her trust and her heart?
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First published January 1, 1932
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Rudolf Steiner
4,483 books1,147 followersAuthor also wrote under the name Rudolph Steiner.
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
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November 2, 2022
Giving this book three stars is too generous, really. It's more of a 2.5 star read - the literary equivalent of a 1930s B-movie with subpar actors and a mediocre script. Still, in spite of its being cheesy and not very well-written, on some level I still enjoyed this romantic suspense novel set in the horse racing world. I think I was lured in by its retro style - it was published in 1932 - not to mention the glamorous illustration on my vintage copy's dust jacket.
Shallow characterization, an insta-love romance, purple prose descriptions...and yet I'll definitely give another of Emilie Loring's novels a chance in hopes that some of the others are better. After all, sometimes I want to read fluff; I just want it to be slightly higher quality fluff than this.
Shallow characterization, an insta-love romance, purple prose descriptions...and yet I'll definitely give another of Emilie Loring's novels a chance in hopes that some of the others are better. After all, sometimes I want to read fluff; I just want it to be slightly higher quality fluff than this.
January 24, 2009
Emilie Loring is an amazing author. I've read every book I can get my hands on at least twice if not more.
January 18, 2021
I first discovered Emilie Loring books when I was in my late teens and I loved them. This was first published in the 1930s and I found the heroine of the book, Sandra Duval, to make frequent cryptic remarks and quote from various sources. Did people really speak like that in the 1930s? Sandra, now an orphan, had spent her life traveling around the world with her father. I don't think we ever learned why they lived all over Europe or what the man did for a living.
Present time: Sandra gets a position of secretary and companion to Mrs. Pat of Seven Chimneys. Mrs. Pat raises thoroughbred horses and races them. She is entirely unlike what I would think a mistress of a large estate would be like. She is vulnerable and unsure of herself for a mature woman. Sandy is surprised to run into a guest staying at Seven Chimneys, Philippe Rousseau, whom she had first met in England when her father was entangling himself from someone who forged his name to documents. Philippe is now claiming to be the supposedly dead son of Mark Hoyt, Mrs. Pat's deceased first husband. If he is, he will replace Nicholas Hoyt, Mark's nephew, as the heir to both Seven Chimneys, Stone House, and all of his estate and riches. This is a 1930s book where Nicholas loves Sandra, Sandra love Nicholas but every word they say to each other is at cross-purposes and both think that the other one loves someone else. This is also a mystery with some danger involved.
Present time: Sandra gets a position of secretary and companion to Mrs. Pat of Seven Chimneys. Mrs. Pat raises thoroughbred horses and races them. She is entirely unlike what I would think a mistress of a large estate would be like. She is vulnerable and unsure of herself for a mature woman. Sandy is surprised to run into a guest staying at Seven Chimneys, Philippe Rousseau, whom she had first met in England when her father was entangling himself from someone who forged his name to documents. Philippe is now claiming to be the supposedly dead son of Mark Hoyt, Mrs. Pat's deceased first husband. If he is, he will replace Nicholas Hoyt, Mark's nephew, as the heir to both Seven Chimneys, Stone House, and all of his estate and riches. This is a 1930s book where Nicholas loves Sandra, Sandra love Nicholas but every word they say to each other is at cross-purposes and both think that the other one loves someone else. This is also a mystery with some danger involved.
February 5, 2021
Love amongst the thoroughbreds. I was struck anew (on reading this for the 10th? 15th? 20th? time) by Loring’s description of the amount and quality of food her characters eat. Forget the romance, the real fantasy here is that anyone could eat multiple multi-course meals, plus high tea, every day and stay as slim as her heroines always are. Her menus are educational though: essence of tomato, champignons sous cloche, scrambled eggs and anchovy paste on toast (which the internet informs me is Scotch Woodcock). When I first read Loring’s books there were no food blogs I could consult to find out what such things were. Now there are, of course. Can't say that fact makes me any more interested in trying scrambled eggs and anchovies. Aside from the questionable food though, this is a charming romance.
July 6, 2018
I started reading Emile Loring books when I picked up a paperback from a rack in a hotel lobby (for 50 cents) while on my sister's & my yearly vacation to visit my father. Hooked! I went on to purchase and read every Emilie Loring romance written and available in paperback, not knowing that she had died before I was even born. I loved these books, but read them when I was between about 12 and 18 years old. I was a young reader - do keep that in mind! :-)
August 7, 2024
Going through and marking all the Emilie Loring books I've read this year so that I can remember. Pretty sure I liked this one. I remember thinking the mystery was pretty good. The ending had all the feels though...it almost felt reminiscent of a current YA tear jerker. I'm sure my little adolescent heart would have loved it and just wept over it.
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