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The Brother of Daphne
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The Brother of Daphne is a collection of light comic stories by Dornford Yates, featuring the well-to-do Pleydell family and narrated by Boy Pleydell, marking the start of his popular "Berry" series. Readers who enjoy gentle Edwardian English humour and period social comedy will find it appealing.
Dornford Yates
Cecil William Mercer, known by his pen name Dornford Yates, was an English writer and novelist whose novels and short stories, some humorous, some thrillers, were best-sellers during the Interwar Period.
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