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The last of all possible worlds ; and, The temptation to do good : two novels / by Peter F. Drucker.
LIBRA PS3554.R7 A6 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church.
- Historical fiction.
- Ambassadors--Fiction.
- Ambassadors.
- Universities and colleges.
- United States.
- Bankers--Fiction.
- Bankers.
- Catholic Church--Fiction.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 378 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Paul Dry Books Edition.
- Other Title:
- Temptation to do good
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- Best-selling author Peter F. Drucker wrote just two novels. Here for the first time in paperback are both. In The Last of All Possible Worlds, royalty, bankers, lovers, and wives intertwine to create a vivid portrait of Europe in the early 1900s. We meet wise and worldly Prince Sobieski, Vienna's ambassador in London, his enchanting wife, her English lover, and her enigmatic lifelong companion, Josefa. When Sobieski's illegitimate daughter makes a demand of her influential father, the unspoken rules of the family are challenged. Sobieski's world is further upset when two powerful merchant bankers, the tragic McGregor Hinton and the ambitious Julius von Mosenthal, arrive in London--both with their own requirements of the prince. The Temptation to Do Good tells the story of Father Heinz Zimmerman, the well-regarded president of an American Catholic university. When he attempts to help a chemistry teacher who has been denied tenure he accidentally opens the door to the underlying tensions in the university.
- Contents:
- The Last of All Possible Worlds
- Preface 3
- 1 Sobieski 5
- 2 Hinton 69
- 3 Mosenthal 127
- 4 "An die Musik" 175
- The Temptation to Do Good
- Part 1 223
- Part 2 247
- Part 3 280
- Part 4 315.
- ISBN:
- 1589881087
- 9781589881082
- OCLC:
- 923553052
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