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Book and wrapper in very good condition but it does have a gift message inside - 474 pg. >>> Hard-working, serviceable family-saga doings, in England and South Africa, 1866-1900--centering on the business triumphs and private-life woes of handsome, cold-hearted Matthew Bright. Matthew doesn't start out cold-hearted, of course: too poor to wed his beloved Isobel, daughter of the Duke of Desborough, he sets off to make his fortune in the 1869 diamond rush; but, by the time Matthew has struck it rich in Kimberley, Isobel has married his fat, slimy brother Freddy. . . who has managed (via triple-murder) to inherit an Earldom! Matthew vows re-venge, naturally--and gets it by marrying (virtually buying) Isobel's younger sister Anne, then driving guilt-ridden Freddy insane. Meanwhile.......
