Bellagrand
Paullina Simons
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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2013
Copyright © Paullina Simons 2013
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Cover photographs © Aria Baro/Trevillion Images (girl); Macduff Everton/Getty Images (background)
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Source ISBN: 9780007493715
Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007493746
Version: 2015-03-18
For my mother, An engineer A teacher An immigrant A romantic A dreamer A giver of life Who looked for Paradise Every place she lived.
But heard are the Voices
Heard are the Sages,
The Worlds and the Ages:
Choose well; your choice is
Brief, and yet endless.
—Johann von Goethe
Contents
Part One: Bread and Roses 1911–1918
Chapter 3: A Servant of Relief
Chapter 4: The Love of an American Girl
Chapter 6: Ten Days that Shook the World
Part Two: Bellagrand 1919–1922
Chapter 8: Flagler’s Quest for Paradise
Chapter 11: Total Eclipse of the Son
Chapter 13: The Wisdom of Alexander Pope
Part Three: The Man Without a Country 1922–1929
Chapter 15: Isadora and Sergei
Chapter 18: White Terrorists Ask for Mercy
Chapter 20: Harry’s Favorite Book
Chapter 21: The Snake and the Falcon