The success of the novel was so immense that it sold eight million copies in five years. Warner Books won the rights to publish this novel for $4.94 million.
Despite a number of negative opinions from literary critics, this book received huge commercial success. This romantic and historic writer authored many best-selling novels before she wrote the "Scarlet" which eventually topped the British best seller list. After serving in the advertising department of "Life" magazine, she did various types of jobs before taking her writing assignment of ghostwriting papers for neurosurgeons. She was best known for her novel "Scarlet", the sequel to the famous novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Michel. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Alexandra Ripley ( – ) was a prominent American writer. Readers Digest Condensed Book selection Literary Guild alternate.Ĭopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. As the coincidence-laden plot twists towards its predictable ending, its myriad stereotyped characters utter dialogue embarrassing enough to make Robert E. Ripley (Charleston includes potentially interesting historical detail, but it is all but obscured by the sorely abused conventions of the historical romance genre that dominate her story. Mary perseveres through poverty, drudgery, a sham marriage and subsequent rape, voodoo and a yellow fever epidemic, the mesmerizing Saint-Brevin toying with her heart all the while. As Mary wanders the strange city, her path crosses that of her Aunt Celeste who, hoping to retain the inheritance left by Mary's mother, hides her identity from her niece. Mary escapes the brothel, virtue intact, but not before she is seen there by Valmont Saint-Brevin, a handsome Creole aristocrat.
The naive girl soon falls into the clutches of New Orleans' most infamous madam. When Mary's father dies, leaving his fortune to his unscrupulous second wife, 16-year-old Mary sets out for New Orleans to find her real mother's family. Set in antebellum Louisiana, this historical romance follows the fortunes of Mary McAlister, raised in a convent in Pennsylvania.
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