The Whiteoak Brothers Author:Mazo de la Roche The date is 1923, just a year earlier than the events which took place in 'Jalna', the novel that made the author famous. Eden, the poet, a reluctant student of the law longing for escape to Europe, provides the main theme in his meeting with a mining broker who persuades him to sell mine shares to members of the family. One after another they ... more »are tempted to invest - even old Adeline. But each of them is anxious to conceal it from the others, and the atmosphere is one of secret talks, excited expectation, and awkward indiscretions on the part of Adeline. In the midst of all this unfolds the young love of Piers and Pheasant, and, for good measure, Dilly Warkworth, a distant cousin from England, tries with many wiles to capture the master of Jalna.« less