A Gentleman in Moscow & Rules of Civility By Amor Towles 2 Books Collection Set

A Gentleman in Moscow— Rules of CivilityPlease Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image Shall be Dispatched A Gentleman in On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.

Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely.

But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.

Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?Rules of In a New York City jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent - how to sneak into the cinema, and steal silk stockings from Bendel's - how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year - that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine By the end of the year she'll have - how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best - that chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison - that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat .

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