Tales of two people

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933) was an English playwright and writer, who coined the Ruritania. His father - a priest, a mother - aunt of the writer Kenneth Grahame. He graduated from Oxford. Started as a lawyer engaged in literature, essays and novels published in newspapers and magazines.

«Tales of Two People» is a collection of short stories and novelettes. It was published in book form in 1907. Ambrose Calverley, who has traveled and adventured for many years, returns to England on the death of his father. Inheriting the title and estates of Lord Lynborough, he takes up residence at Scarsmore Castle on the coast of Yorkshire, with his friends Leonard 'Cromlech' Stubb, an ancient history researcher, and Roger Wibraham, his private secretary. It's a great plot, which won't leave indifferent its reader!