ARCADIA
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.-Tom Stoppard, ArcadiaIn a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the five hundred acres inclusive of lake where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the Gothic style: everything but vampires, as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later. Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when L…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-2699-3
- EAN: 9780802126993
- Produktnummer: 21882362
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.7 cm 143 g
- Gewicht: 143
Über den Autor
Tom Stoppard is the author of such seminal works as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, and the trilogy The Coast of Utopia. His screen credits include Parade’s End, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma, Empire of the Sun, and Anna Karenina.
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