House of the Twelve Caesars
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 206
Copyright date: 1975
First sentence: The songs my mother taught me and the tales she told me were all of Britain and were filled with a nostalgia so poignant that they infected me with the same emotion.
Description: It was a long journey from a tenement room in New York to Plas Mawr in Wales, and the great house on the Hill of the Strangers had a forbidding appearance. But Dorothy Etting, American-born daughter of an English mother, set out with courage to find the grandfather she had never seen. A progressive, independent girl of the Nineties, she feared neither poverty nor hard work, yet the mystery and confusion she found in the house of her ancestors threatened her very sanity.

Everywhere were questions without answers. What had the Roman Emperors to do with a lonely mansion in Wales? Why did no birds sing on that hill? What had the Montcourts done, that the local inhabitants spat at the sound of their name? How could one be a prisoner in a place, yet free to walk out of it?

Painfully the young girl tried to solve the riddles, while danger grew and escape became more urgent. Where in the world could she find a friend? Was the strange man in the forest to be trusted?

In this nightmare atmosphere she fought for survival against an unknown enemy, and came to believe the legend of the trembling of the hill.
Table of contents: label: Prelude
title: Dorothy in America
pagenum: 8; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 8; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 13; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 20; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 26; label: 1
title: Julius
pagenum: 33; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 33; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 41; label: 2
title: Augustus
pagenum: 49; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 49; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 55; label: 3
title: Tiberius
pagenum: 65; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 65; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 75; label: 4
title: Caligula
pagenum: 83; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 83; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 90; label: 5
title: Claudius
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 105; label: 6
title: Nero
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 120; label: 7
title: Galba
pagenum: 129; label: 8
title: Otho
pagenum: 139; label: 9
title: Vitellius
pagenum: 149; label: 10
title: Vespian
pagenum: 157; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 157; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 165; label: 11
title: Titus
pagenum: 175; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 175; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 182; label: 12
title: Domitian
pagenum: 193; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 193; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 202