Helen

Maria Edgeworth

earliest edition we have, 1987 Aegypan, 2007 hardcover 400 pages

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A novel of manners and conversation in the patrician social mielieu of England and London in the 1820's and 1803's. It begins as a novel of courtship, destined to end with the happy betrothal of its heroine, the orphaned Helen Stanley, but it soon turns into the story of Helen's friend Lady Cecilia Clarendon, and the crumbling of her marriage as her beguiling and harmless lies, not told in malice, becomes self-destru...

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Editions we hold

Helen hardcover · 2007 · Aegypan · 400 pages · 9781603128490
Helen paperback · 2007 · Aegypan · 400 pages · 9781603121675
Helen paperback · 2006 · Hesperides Press · 504 pages · 9781406712971
Helen paperback · 2004 · Kessinger Publishing · 452 pages · 9781419123191
Helen edition · 1999 · Pickering & Chatto · 413 pages
Helen edition · 1987 · Pandora · 444 pages

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