Books with title Hearts and Masks by Harold MacGrath, Fiction, Classics, Action

Alice Gaynor lives on a country estate with her Uncle John. He won't let her have friends, and she annoys him so much with her pranks that he decides to go away. While he is gone, Alice dresses as a maid, and meets Richard Comstock, an author traveling incognito. She says that she lives in a boarding house, and turns her uncle's home into one, using the servants as guests and the housekeeper as the landlady. All goes well until Uncle John returns, and the action moves to a hotel, a hunt club ball, and an encounter with a gentleman crook before the masks are raised and hearts are revealed.Harold MacGrath was a novelist, a short-story writer, and screen writer. He wrote at least a novel a year, had short stories in the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal, and became one of the first well-known writers to work in film.

Warrington faced his darkest moments, that day in Jaipur. Why should he go on? Why should he should keep struggling, day after day? Then he saw the man at the railway station with the performing parrot named Rajah. After hours of haggling, Warrington obtained for himself a companion -- a strange one, who would keep him company for years to come -- and who would teach him lessons in persistence against odds.Yet Warrington remained a stranger, to those around him -- and in Rangoon acquireed the strangest of epithets. The natives referred to him as The Man Who Never Talks of Home. But suddenly the pendulum of fortune swings in his favor . . . and now he must finally face his own past!

Warrington faced his darkest moments, that day in Jaipur. Why should he go on? Why should he should keep struggling, day after day? Then he saw the man at the railway station with the performing parrot named Rajah. After hours of haggling, Warrington obtained for himself a companion -- a strange one, who would keep him company for years to come -- and who would teach him lessons in persistence against odds.Yet Warrington remained a stranger, to those around him -- and in Rangoon acquireed the strangest of epithets. The natives referred to him as The Man Who Never Talks of Home. But suddenly the pendulum of fortune swings in his favor . . . and now he must finally face his own past!

Alice Gaynor lives on a country estate with her Uncle John. He won't let her have friends, and she annoys him so much with her pranks that he decides to go away. While he is gone, Alice dresses as a maid, and meets Richard Comstock, an author traveling incognito. She says that she lives in a boarding house, and turns her uncle's home into one, using the servants as guests and the housekeeper as the landlady. All goes well until Uncle John returns, and the action moves to a hotel, a hunt club ball, and an encounter with a gentleman crook before the masks are raised and hearts are revealed.Harold MacGrath was a novelist, a short-story writer, and screen writer. He wrote at least a novel a year, had short stories in the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal, and became one of the first well-known writers to work in film.