A biography of the author's grandmother, a nineteenth-century English girl who married one of the richest men in Russia.

Candle at Dusk

by E.M. Almedingen

Published 1 January 1969
In spite of his recent betrothal and his fear of a Saracen invasion, an eighth-century Frankish boy obtains his father's skeptical permission to live for a time at the neighboring abbey in order to learn to read.