A Modern Chronicle

Winston Churchill

Maison d'édition: Aeneas Press

Synopsis

A woman of the new century marries, divorces, and marries again — and Churchill follows her through Newport, Paris and the courts to ask what a modern American woman is entitled to want. The author is the American Winston Churchill, so regularly confused with the British statesman that the two men agreed the Englishman would sign himself Winston S. Churchill; in 1910 the American was much the more famous.

Disponible depuis: 19/08/2026.

Longueur d'impression: 499 pages.

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