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Charles Garvice

Only a Girl's Love

Name: Only a Girl's Love
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: 3e73118d-5511-e045-37d7-455b60abbc9d-es-en
Price: 68.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Garvice

Original publication: 1887
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 827
Difficulty: ★☆☆
Genres: Romance
Translated from: English

Book summary

An English romance. Stella, nineteen, born in Italy, runs away from a boarding school in Florence and takes refuge with her uncle, James Etheridge, an old, dreamy painter who lives on the banks of the Thames. There she meets Lord Leycester, the hot-headed heir to the neighbouring estate of Wyndward. Standing between them are the pride of a noble family, which intends another woman for him, and Jasper Adelstone, a lawyer ready to do anything to marry Stella. A love story full of twists and turns, carried by a frank and spontaneous heroine.

The plot

The painter’s niece and the young lord. Stella is nineteen. She runs away from a very strict school in Florence and travels alone to England, to her uncle, an old painter.

The world of the book

An English village and its great house. The story is set in England at the end of the 19th century, in a village on the Thames, near London. On the hill lives a rich and noble family, respected by the whole village.

The author

Charles Garvice, 1850⁠ –⁠ 1920. The son of a London bricklayer, he starts out as a journalist. He later lives on the banks of the Thames, like the heroes of this novel.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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