Edwardian

Books written during or set in the Edwardian era.
The Edwardian era in Great Britain is the period following the Victorian era, covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910. It is sometimes extended beyond Edward's death to include the four years leading up to World War I.
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Sisters of Fortune
The Housekeepers
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen
An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)
Rotten to the Core (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #8)
An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle, #9)
A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1)
A Noble Scheme (The Imposters, #2)
An Honorable Deception (The Imposters, #3)
The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)
The Fatal Flying Affair (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #7)
Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor
A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #10)
The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple
The Mistletoe Countess (Freddie & Grace Mystery, #1)
A Room with a View
Howards End
Maurice
The Secret Garden
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
Snobbery with Violence (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #1)
A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
The Wind in the Willows
Think of England (England World, #2)
The Children's Book
Hasty Death (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #2)
A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Our Lady of Pain (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #4)
The Governess of Highland Hall (Edwardian Brides, #1)

Saki
The little stone Saint and the Goblin got on very well together, though they looked at most things from different points of view. The Saint was a philanthropist in an old fashioned way; he thought the world, as he saw it, was good, but might be improved. In particular he pitied the church mice, who were miserably poor. The Goblin, on the other hand, was of opinion that the world, as he knew it, was bad, but had better be let alone. It was the function of the church mice to be poor.
Saki, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

Saki
Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason that than he didn’t get one in December. He had no more idea of succumbing to them than he had of purchasing the fish-knives and fur boas that ladies are impelled to sacrifice through the medium of advertisement columns during twelve months of the year. Still, there was something impressive in this unasked-for renunciation of ...more
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