The Temple Of Optimism
Famously, Jane Austen created a fictional universe for 'three or four families in a country village'. In this remarkable first novel James Fleming achieves something very similar: out of the relationships of two men and one woman in Derbyshire in 1788 he has created a fiction that bears comparison with the great novelists of the nineteenth century.Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel of extraordinary richness, at once a wholly convincing representation of an eighteenth-century world and an utterly modern dissection of…
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Weitere Autoren: Fleming, James
- ISBN: 978-1-4464-1264-0
- EAN: 9781446412640
- Produktnummer: 14350439
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 515 KB
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