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The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850. It is loosely based on The Diamond Necklace Affair, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.
A young diplomat returns from Barcelona devastated by parting with his beloved wife. And yet, he soon meets a new love. But when he is about to crown that relationship with marriage, his former girlfriend returns.
A story about family love, about memory's ability to keep the truth alive, and about the danger of denying memory. At the same time extensive and intimate, comic and tragic, it is a kaleidoscopic, deeply emotional saga about home and the heart.
Jacob Jankowski left his previous life, jumped on the first train that passed through the place and went straight to the world of weirdos and outcasts, and his new home - the Circus of the Benzini Brothers - will become his salvation and hell on earth at
All Francesca Channing had to do to save her marriage, her children's safety, and herself, was tell a lie. A small, simple lie. But when it had to be done, nothing was so simple...
This is an excellent romantic story about a failed marriage, adultery without passion and the suicide of a young woman who fantasized about an exciting life, waiting in vain for a change in the small-town everyday life.