Name: Falkner: Classic literature (en Inglés)
SKU: 66523829
Price: 26120.00 CLP
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Author: Shelley, Mary
ISBN: 9781544211121

portada Falkner: Classic literature (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Autor

Shelley, Mary

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1.7 cm

ISBN13

9781544211121

Falkner: Classic literature (en Inglés)

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Falkner, published in 1837, is the last novel by Mary Shelley;and as we see from her letter she had been passing through a period of ill-health and depression while writing it, this may account for less spontaneity in the style, which is decidedly more stilted; but, here again, we feel that we are admitted to some of the circle which Mary had encountered in the stirring times of her life, and there is undoubted imagination with some fine descriptive passages. The opening chapter introduces a little deserted child in a picturesque Cornish village. Her parents had died there in apartments, one after the other, the husband having married a governess against the wishes of his relations; consequently, the wife was first neglected on her husband's death; and on her own sudden death, a few months later, the child was simply left to the care of the poor people of the village a dreamy, poetic little thing, whose one pleasure was to stroll in the twilight to the village churchyard and be with her mamma. Here she was found by Falkner, the principal character of the romance, who had selected this very spot to end a ruined existence; in which attempt he was frustrated by the child jogging his arm to move him from her mother's grave