by
Malcolm Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
"The Dukes" is a magnificent novel about a family, with all the emotions, problems and drama of any large family — except that in this case the head of it, Augustus Clarence Fitzstephen Wrottesley Veitch du Bois, the Fourth Duke of St. Ormer, is about to die without an heir. A one-time intimate...