To Have and To Hold
This was the #1 best-selling novel in the United States in 1900, made into movies several times in subsequent years. It is set in colonial North America, beginning in the year 1621. A new movie adapted from the book was filmed in 2011. The dialog is Early Modern English, somewhat similar to Shakespeare's writings, not contemporary English but similar enough to be understood. The narration is almost modern English, easily understood. An English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer in Jamestown colony, buys a wife -- a girl named Jocelyn Leigh -- not knowing that she is the escaped ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to L…
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- ISBN: 978-963-526-729-3
- EAN: 9789635267293
- Produktnummer: 27986551
- Verlag: Booklassic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 231 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 610 KB
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