Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs A Victorian Sussex Romance of Inheritance, Honor, Family Secrets, and the Rural Chalk Hills
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
1,6/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
423 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-9188-5
Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs is a richly landscaped Victorian romance, setting private feeling and inherited obligation amid the chalk ridges, farms, roads, and sea-facing horizons of Sussex. Blending courtship, family mystery, moral testing, and melodramatic incident, Blackmore writes in the ample regional mode that followed Lorna Doone, making landscape not scenery but an ethical atmosphere shaping character and fate. R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900)-classicist, former lawyer, schoolmaster, and devoted horticulturist-brought to fiction an exact eye for weather, soil, dialect, and rural custom. Though best remembered for Exmoor, he repeatedly transformed English localities into imaginative territories. His distance from London literary cliques and practical intimacy with country labor help explain the patient naturalism and humane conservatism of this novel. Readers who admire expansive Victorian storytelling, finely observed rural settings, and romance charged with questions of honor, inheritance, and belonging will find Alice Lorraine rewarding. It is especially recommended to those seeking Blackmore beyond his masterpiece: quieter, perhaps, but revealing his conviction that landscape, history, and feeling are inseparable forces in human life.
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